WEST GLACIER, Mont. \u2014 A 32-year-old man suffered non-life-threatening injuries after a surprise encounter with a grizzly bear Thursday on the Grinnell Glacier Trail in Glacier National Park.<\/p>\n
The incident happened at about 12:45 p.m. in a snowfield about 3.5 miles up the trail. <\/p>\n
Loud rushing water in the area made it difficult for either the man or the bear to detect one another. The bear charged and fractured the man\u2019s arm.<\/p>\n
Nearby hikers quickly helped, and the bear moved away from the area. The hikers provided initial medical aid and initiated emergency communication.<\/p>\n
At about 12:51 p.m., park dispatch received an SOS reporting an injured man who had an encounter with a bear.<\/p>\n
Park staff and ALERT were dispatched, and ALERT transported the man to Logan Health Medical Center in Kalispell.<\/p>\n
Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n
JOIN THE CONVERSATION (1)<\/p>\n
The Grinnell Glacier Trail is temporarily closed and will reopen when deemed appropriate by park staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST GLACIER, Mont. \u2014 A 32-year-old man suffered non-life-threatening injuries after a surprise encounter with a grizzly bear…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-681340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}