Grizzly Encounter - This is what happened when I yelled at them! 

This is a really great example of how NOT to respond to bears. A little "go away" can easily peak a bears curiosity drawing them in your direction. I've had to "stand down" bears on 3 separate occasions during my backpacking journey and I've learned that you really need to put some base in your voice, stand your ground, and make it sound like you've emerged from the pit of hell. Otherwise you just sound like a weak, wounded meal.

My heart was racing just watching this video. 😮

Don't bother them and they won't bother you, unless you haven't changed your dirty underwear? They do not see well, but can smell for miles. I think you need a .45 to back up your bear spray and bear bell.

I believe in angels too, but…😅

Now your being silly, your alluding to the lord somehow changing the situation to protect you,but in other video you got off the trail when a grizzly was on a direct course with you,why did you get off the trail?if you feel like there is Devine intervention in your case..you just haven't met the right bear yet!

Stan, you seem to be testing fate. It only takes one. Enjoy your video s

The world is getting so scary, so happy and heart warming to see another u tuber acknowledge God, the God of the Bible : )

Pressing your luck Stan! I believe the Lord would also say to not put yourself in harms way? Too many times your type of videos end up being the end for the videographer. The fact that you are thanking the Lord for not being attacked pretty much sums up the poor decisions you are making. Time to end this poor decision making.... Alone, several miles from a main road will eventually not end well for you. This might sound blunt, but is fact Stan. For what, more views, really don't understand your why factor? Stuck in a snowbank, pretty much sums up the end and a nice meal for the bear. Move on to a new topic.....thanks

Stupidity has no bounds, and now thanks to the internet, it has no limits

I used google translator and apparently "Go away!" in English actually means "Come and get it, dinner is served!" in Grizzly- maybe a good thing they didn't actually hear you.

Stan will you please be extra careful, hope you carry protection. I DO NOT want to hear about you on the news!

A grizzly 10 yards away !! Holy smoke. I was fly fishing in the middle of a pretty fast moving river up to my waist so I had very slow mobility when two moose walked out of the brush and into the river down stream from me about 15 yards away and I about died from fright. It took me a very long time to inch myself upstream where I finally saw an opening to get out. Can’t imagine how frightened you must have been. Stay safe.

Should have kept quiet and backed out of there.

These bears watch Stan on RU-vid so he’s respected in the bear community😉

My mood would have been terror. They are incredibly fast for their size, and of course very powerful. Considering how many Grizzlies were around, you were very calm.

The Lord Also gives you a Brain, Knowledge, Common Sense and sometimes a WARNING.

The bears is head of the game, you're trespassing in their world. They smell and saw you long before you saw them.

Wow Stan, this video is great although scary! While they are unpredictable, when they are in their element and food for them abounds in a good year, the grizzlies have no interest in us. I know there’s more to it than that, but everything scales from that fact. I would love to have the opportunity you have to hike these trails. Thanks for the videos, I can at least live through them!

Because you acknowledge Our Lord, His awesome creation and creatures, and have great faith -is what makes what you do so beautiful and special!

Well…we can definitely see how the snow drift responded….1:40 (Kidding - I would have been paralyzed and probably would have dropped the camera altogether) Very hard to tell distances here - seems like the yelled-at bears were plenty far away relative to other encounters…

Grizzlies are everywhere in Yellowstone, so when people go hiking why is it a surprise to see one or 5? And since we all know they're there, why do people go hiking in there? I don't get it.

Stan I enjoy your videos, but it seems like you’re beginning to push the grizzly encounters too much. It never ends well when it goes that way.

One thing I learned in my 50 years of hiking the High Sierras is that bears and mountain lions have no natural predators. At that distance I leave them alone but keep an eye on them. Only when they get within 50 yards I turn into a wild man thrashing, yelling, and chasing them. They run every time because nothings ever chased them before. Never had a bear or cat turn back.

Anything a grizzly could take as a challenge. If they wanted to eat you, they would have been sneakier. In the winter animals are hungrier. My 2 cents.

I yelled to get big Grizz away from me , he was approaching fast and I didn't want to kill a bear. I ended up shooting him point blank with shotgun. It took 3 slugs to head to drop him 3 feet away from me. My yelling allmost got me killed.

watch and observe what the bear are eating, and where, which terrain. get over the purulent thrills of RU-vid, and learn about the ecosystem here. the people who die here locally are typically men, solo. this NOT a guide for conducting yourself in the back country. fortunately these bear likely knew about him before he saw the bear. RU-vid viewers: bear do not speak English, by the way.

You can be lucky a lot of times......you only need to be unlucky just once with a grizzly.

Yup you should of kept your mouth shut and just kept walking ... just leave go about your business before you become dinner . Start carrying bear spray since you don't know any better sorry not trying to sound mean but that was not the smartest thing to do ......

reguardless what you see on media all the time grizzlys are not ravenous man eaters most the time they just ignore you unless they get curious even then alot of times they will get close enough to see what you are then typically just turn and walk off each bear though is diffrent

I agree with you Stan, you shouldn't have yelled at the Grizzlies! Wow, they are stunning animals!! 🤗 I still like your camera, very nice close - ups my friend, very nice video too, thank you sincerely for sharing your videos and for all the work that you put in so we can see them on RU-vid, I very much appreciate that!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Nice video of you and the grizzlies just enjoying and not bothering each other. I appreciate the fact that you are one of the human beings that can look at grizzlies, and your first thoughts are not about killing them, you would rather respect their lives they have been given and enjoy their wild beauty, and I respect you and thank you for that. Stay well, Stay safe🐾🐾🙏

This is clickbait, this guy is acting like this for RU-vid views

I would bet they knew you were in the area before you knew they were there. During my life I have had the pleasure of watching animals when they don't know you are there. There posture changes ( or they vanish ) when they know someone is coming before the person knows they are there.

Why would you put yourself in a situation like that ?

Not sure why so many in such close proximity. It seems like breeding season as they were following each other around. Might be June.

Can you tell us how long ago you had this encounter?

You sir are so brave to be out in the open with Grizzlies. They scare the heck outta me. I love your videos, always so calm and beautiful scenery. Thank you for sharing your adventures.

I had a black bear by my Jeep at home. I did not know he was there and went around the back of my Jeep to put out garbage. I stood there, then tried to speak gently to him. Literally 3 feet away. He hissed, did a small fake lunge to scare me and ran off in front of my Jeep. I of course ran back behind my Jeep and omg met him on the other side. Face to face again! Knowing NEVER run, I ran without thinking as fast as I could. In a situation you can know all the rules. Bear Spray was in my Jeep for hiking. Did not have it on me to put garbage out. Luckily it was a younger bear and he took off the other direction. We were both safe. The last thing I would ever want to do is get a bear killed.

Probability vs religion.

I love your videos and your calm manner around bears. It is a relief to learn that you aren't impervious to fear!

Got bears? If you are ever in a bear attack, protect your eyes and the hand you draw with. In another YT hiking video by someone else, a grizzly did not react until they yelled to it. Then it started to charge. But really, bears don't speak English. I think it just makes the person speaking feel a tiny bit better. Recently, I was checking my game cameras and a big black bear was in front of one of the cameras minutes before I got there. I wish I would have seen it. I was busy watching for rutting bucks. It's a big ole goofy looking bear that has been coming here for at least 5 years. It's big enough to flip a decent sized dumpster over.

How exciting and thrilling to see grizzlies and even more so to be within their presence! Excellent! 🤗

Thank you for taking us along Mr.Mills

The best advice can be found in the book "Hiking With Grizzlies" by Tim Rubbert. You don't want to show fear around a large predator. If you're even a little afraid, you're showing fear. Read the book. There's no reason to be fearful in the vast majority of bear encounters, including this one. Grizzlies don't hang out together except when there's lots of food around. In the Two Medicine Valley in Glacier National Park, when moths are hatching, I've seen 25+ grizzlies in close proximity. Other people have seen upwards of 50. They're so busy eating that they could care less about you as long as you aren't surprising them. Just talk in your lowest voice and they'll know you're there. Enjoy the encounter.

Psalm 121:8 The Lord will watch your coming and going both now and forevermore

Thanks for the video and sharing your experience. Sure hope you aren't bucking to be the next "Grizzly Man"...... things didn't end so well for him (nor his poor, supposed girlfriend).

Thanks for sharing this... This summer, on a turned road, while walking,... a black bear was walking towards me. I crossed on the otherside of the road, hehe... I'm sure there is a joke there somewhere... Why did the human cross the road? Hehe...🐻

How many times you can tempt fate? Stuck in a snowbank, grizzly within 10 yards🤔 Perhaps many have asked? Do you carry? Weapon, bear spray? Hiking alone…I am no expert… I hope you stay safe and well!

It is times like this when you wish you had brought the Ghostbusters backpack sprayer full of bear spray and the bungy cord attached to the follow-me sky hook.

Dude, you’re going to get yourself eaten alive. Please stop.😮 these things do not mess around. Please stop.

The prudent man sees trouble coming from a distance and hides himself but a fool allows himself to blunder into trouble & suffers the consequences. (My own paraphrase of Proverbs 22:3)

you must have a death wish, if they don't see you or just don't care about you then i would'nt yell at them so they can see you, dinner mean anything to you... you nuts....

No sir, The Lord told me NOT to go out into grizzly country! He told you too but you don't listen! Keep it up and oneday you'll meet The Lord by way of a grizzly!

Instead of yelling at the grizzly bears, do work on your video skills maybe you have a tremendously long lens, and it’s impossible to avoid the shake but as you yell at the Bears looks like you’re yelling at the snow melting

I suspect the same prayer a bear makes....

Beautiful animals. Scent is their primary sense for both predation and danger. Being upslope during the heat of the day they likely didn't Scent you unless it was later afternoon with downdrafts dropping down into valleys and drainage.

Haven’t seen so many bears , must be early morning and looking for food..

Wow that’s amazing you saw all those bears on that hike . Thank the good lord for his protection . Amen on standing in faith for all gods promises are yes an amen . Yes lord we believe . What a nice day in Yellowstone great memories , pretty exciting for you to remember . Thank you nice to see those grizzlies!!!

you should work for national geographic documenting bears lol

Bears are wild animal and can be predictable until they are not. Best to be prepared to defend yourself if charged.

You're very lucky you may not always be lucky would not be out there risking my life for a hike there

I suppose they know English, that was not a good response you initiated.

You're in their yard. You go away. I would've yelled too, though. :)

Yes thank the Lord , He was protecting you ! And give Him thanks always for protection ! Take care , love your videos !

These animals need to eat about 18lbs of meat per day. They might find you pretty interesting. You don't tug on Superman's cape, and don't spit into the wind. Don't pull the mask off of that old Lone Ranger, and you don't mess around with Jim.

Trespassing on a bear's property and telling it to go away?

10 yards ?!!!... damned close !!! Thx.

Grizzlies do not behave like brown and black bears.

There ain't no god that's gonna keep you from dying.

Amen Stan, I pray that the Lord will keep you safe while you show us the glory of His creation.

That’s awesome. Was that after this recent snow or a video from the past? Definitely sketchy but I think us grizzly adventures like the sketch or we wouldn’t do it That’s looks like spring melt or was that a wk ago ish

Are you wearing camouflage? How do they not get you

It is a 50/50 chance, you got lucky.

Hi Stan. I love your videos and all your wisdom and knowledge. One question: what where the bears doing? It seems they were intent and not bothered by your presence, perhaps focused on some objective. But what were they doing? Looking for some kind of food?

Jeez that place is crawling with bears!

What about the loads of other people that have been eaten alive by bears. They obviously weren't on Gods favourite list.

I enjoy your videos. I hope I don’t read about you in the newspaper

You be careful around those bears.

If he ate you, you would say, the lord sent me there to feed them. The lord doesn't work that way, do you think he is stopping bears from attacking, you got lucky. The lord helps thee who themselves. Get it?

Not the usual video. You always say that this is their home, and do not interrupt them, and then you start yelling at the bears. So contradictory to your normal commentary. Forget your camera…..I would have my bear spray out and ready. And finally, to be 10 miles from civilization all alone just does not make logical sense. I think you are tempting fate!

3:44 "angels" not "angles" 😅🤣😂

If you're shaking, the bears must be much closer than they appear in the video.

Is it possible the darker bear was a female and there were cubs nearby, the lighter bear being a male? Seems there was some sort of interaction going on between them, which fortunately may have kept them distracted from approaching you?

Calculate risk...

What's the grizzly population in Yellowstone these days?

Springtime, mating season

That wasn't a yell.

It's COULDN'T care less.

Do you know how horrible it is to be mauled alive and your intestines ripped out? No? I do not either, and I will do everything to not find out. Why are you even there?

Didnt think you were supposed to yell at grizzly bears? especially in their home . yikes

I guess you didn't realize that bears eat people!

Bear lovers wont appreciate this message. I'm sorry, it's not meant to offend. I love the great outdoors and all wildlife. However, I just dont see the point of encouraging the expansion of the grizzly bear population or maintenance of the population above the minimum needed to avoid extinction. Grizzlies cause such traumatic and horrifically painful deaths for so many animals such as deer, elk, moose, and bison, not to mention the occasional attacks on people. We really don't need bears to control the population of those animals. There are humane ways to do that. Bears take down a lot of perfectly healthy animals in a terrifying manner. They dont just prey on the sick and injured. That's not to say its okay for the lives of the sick and injured to be killed in a horrific manner either. It would be so nice to be able to backpack into the wild places like Yellowstone and Glacier without having the constant worry of a bear encounter or attack. Mostly, I just have a lot of compassion for all of the other big games animals that are under the constant threat of being attacked and eaten alive by bears.

Thank you 😊

Be safe my friend!

Too much movement of camera....dizzy dean.

Yes, that's the best strategy: rely on Daddy In The Sky to protect you.

Amen !

Yikes

The Lord had nothing to do with you not being attacked, you used up one of your 2 lives (cats have 9)

Amen