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Toona
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Anybody ever seen a bear while skiing out west, guess you could see one in the east too but probably more possible out west. This stupid asf my bad
Jan 29 2022 9:06PM
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Skibumsmith
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No they're asleep dummy.
Jan 29 2022 9:10PM
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Toona
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SkibumsmithNo they're asleep dummy.


They be sleeping like a max of 100 days so they might decide to hop onto a groomer at big sky and have some fun
Jan 29 2022 9:13PM
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CoolChillGuy420
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No but bears are cool as fuck
Jan 29 2022 9:13PM
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Skibumsmith
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ToonaThey be sleeping like a max of 100 days so they might decide to hop onto a groomer at big sky and have some fun

Kicking Horse has a bear named Boo who lives under the gondola. Sometimes he comes out before the lifts stop spinning in the spring.
Jan 29 2022 9:19PM
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iFlip
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I've seen a family of black bears in the East on the slopes, likely very recently out of hibernation. It was a number of years ago but I believe it was toward the spring and fairly warm. Fun fact though, bears are not true hibernators. I've seen bears most months of the year, including in January.
Jan 29 2022 10:02PM
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CoolChillGuy420
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SkibumsmithKicking Horse has a bear named Boo who lives under the gondola. Sometimes he comes out before the lifts stop spinning in the spring.

He has an instagram account too btw. He's hibernating but there are live cams of his bear den :)
Jan 29 2022 11:27PM
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CowboySkibop
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BEARSBEARSBEARSBEARS
Jan 29 2022 11:32PM
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SendyMcSendyface
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At Targhee I think there's a bear den or two, ya gotta watch out in the spring. Kinda unrelated, but a few years ago someone smoked a marmot while ripping, was fucking gnarly.
Jan 29 2022 11:56PM
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50Kal
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Skied Whitefish in late march back in 1999.
The resort was a ghost town that time of the year back then.
My brother and I were first tracks on groomer run but was so fun we wanted a second lap on that same run. Still the only skiers on that run and we found huge grizzly bear tracks going straight down the run but then across the run.

I still to this day wounder if we looked back up the run if we would of saw a grizzly bear chasing us or following us.
Jan 30 2022 11:27AM
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Stuuuuuuuuuu
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Don't remember where I heard this story I I think it was a friend who knew a guy who heard from a friend type story so who knows if it's true but apparently a guy skiing somewhere around whister fell head first into a tree well and there was a bear with a couple cubs sleeping in a hollowed out snow den at the bottom
Jan 30 2022 7:54PM
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SendyMcSendyface
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Anybody have that clip (I think it's from Romania?) of the dude getting chased down the hill by a bear?
Jan 31 2022 5:47PM
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ReturnToMonkey
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ToonaThey be sleeping like a max of 100 days so they might decide to hop onto a groomer at big sky and have some fun

The secret is the Yellowstone bears lose their job demand in WY for the winter so they get seasonal jobs driving the cats at Big Sky. That's why the park is so good. You ever seen a bear rake a lip with its claws? It's beautiful.
Jan 31 2022 9:09PM
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BearsOnKetamine
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Heard of one on ketamine idk
Jan 31 2022 10:56PM
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BrandoComando
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I saw a bear under the Comstock chair at Northstar a few years ago. Def a Jerry Beary since he wasn't in the park
Feb 3 2022 5:59PM
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arnie_grape
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i see grizzlies almost daily on the road to work from mid-may to late july but they don't come up on the mountain until we're closed

they chill where the snow isnt so they can eat dandelions and grubs and such

**This post was edited on Feb 3rd 2022 at 7:52:18pm
Feb 3 2022 7:51PM
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Sivvy
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ToonaAnybody ever seen a bear while skiing out west, guess you could see one in the east too but probably more possible out west. This stupid asf my bad


Some lady just got straight up eaten by a Black Bear in my town this year. Everyone went crazy for bear spray but nobody knew how to use it and there where a bunch of incidents. Sometimes I think about the whole situation at night, kinda fun wind down
Feb 4 2022 12:45AM
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Turd__Authority
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iFlipI've seen a family of black bears in the East on the slopes, likely very recently out of hibernation. It was a number of years ago but I believe it was toward the spring and fairly warm. Fun fact though, bears are not true hibernators. I've seen bears most months of the year, including in January.

Don't tell me this 🥺
Feb 4 2022 5:26AM
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