Your videos are always such a joy! Thank you, Stan, for taking time for all that goes into these videos! It definitely adds a fair amount of work to your hikes (plus editing, ect)!
Such a beautiful video.... The area you're hiking through is just stunning! The wildlife, flowers, green grass, blue sky and clear water makes such a wondrous land to walk through! Thank you so much for sharing your fantastic hiking experience with us!
Hi Stan, I always enjoy the heck out of your videos, and appreciate all your efforts. The inclusion here of the close sweeps of the plant life add a nice touch. Thank you.
Very nice video Stan. Amazing to see triplets , the cutest cubs running around. The mama was surely mature not so worried , more mellow seeing you . The other bears in the sage brush was a good spotting on your hike you are sure good at spotting the wildlife!! Loved all the flowers an summer time lush green grass . My favorite time of year . Thank you for a great video enjoyed it very much.
Stan - it's VERY refreshing to ONLY hear the gentle breeze, an occasional buzzing of a bee or other sounds from nature. Most people who do similar outdoor videos think that by adding background music it adds to the viewer's experience. N.O.T. Thanks for being you...!! Have a most rewarding day, my brother.
But is he to quiet walking around there. Not sure i believe someone scares a bear, i think they don't like folks around where there grazing. Ppl have made noise, yell, etc, they still charge. They remind me of the movie Cujo.
Boy you said it! It's nearly impossible to find good outdoor videos without music! It's so annoying. This is serene and peaceful. Thank you, Stan. Your channel is a true gem.
Wonderful video Stan. Sad that Yellowstone is so far from Alabama. My last trip there was 2019 with my grandson, his first trip but hopefully not his last. Thanks for all you do to bring a glimpse of God's beauty to those of us who can only make the trip occasionally!
The way those grizzlies moved around in the brush you would never see them in time if you walked through there. A couple of times as you moved your camera around I completely lost track of them until they popped their head up.
You're right. One of these days he'll walk through brush, and he'll find a grizzly there. That could be his end. He seems too comfortable hiking there, near those beasts very capable to tear off one's head in a couple seconds. I hope not, but he's setting himself for a deadly encounter. He does not know where in a trail, in a bush he'll find one of these beasts and his bear spray will not save his life
@@mylovedwildanimals8520 Interesting how you know more than an expert who's been doing this his whole life. A perfect example of the Dunning-Kruger effect. Your ignorance of bear behavior is total. And yes, bear spray is effective against warding off bear attacks. Bear spray in the eyes and nasal passages is excruciatingly painful. Bears react to this the way any creature would-- they try immediately to escape. In 98% of cases involving defensive use of bear spray, the persons employing the spray have escaped uninjured. In general grizzlies react to humans by avoidance. They are highly intelligent animals and recognize humans as the exceedingly dangerous animals they are. Grizzly attacks on humans are very rare, numbering only a couple of instances per year in North America, despite the fact that human/grizzly encounters number in the many thousands in that span of time.
Thanks for taking me into the grizzly zone Stan,from the comfort of my own home.I live in Northern Ireland,we don’t have grizzlies,so no worries there whenever I go for a walk in the forest 😂😂😃
It is so beautiful up there now. The meadows are gorgeous and the critters look so good there. Loved the mom griz and the two cubs in the first part of the video. Eden. 💙🌸🐌🌙
Lying here in bed at the crack of dawn... sun light glow... Montain views and lush green pastures... blue blue sky's sun's raise beaming... across the tree tops and Mountain Range... it's a calming Effect it's so peaceful there all the wildlife...Your a lucky man Stan. Great 👍 Video's
Thank you Stan. Really enjoyed it. We just came back from a one week trip to YS. Had a wonderful time. That’s the place where magic happens, all the time.
Thanks for sharing another awesome video Stan. Enjoyed the bull elk also. Will you share which hike you were on or maybe just the area? Will have to enjoy Yellowstone vicariously through your videos this year.
So Stan, at 4:37 in the video when you swing the view of your camera off the bear, I believe that I hear a Velcro closure being opened. Were you getting some "bear dissuading device" 😉 ready at that moment? This is the first time I have encountered one of your videos, and I want to echo a comment I read here. That is, I appreciate the no music, natural sounds only approach. Back to viewing the rest of your video...
My bear spray is on my left shoulder strap and it has Velcro, and on my right shoulder strap is my monoscope. I was getting my scope out. The mom and cubs were about 300 yards away and the other bears were maybe 200 yards. Some people have been saying I should put the distance on my video. I will try to remember to do that from now on for bears, but the distances will still be my best guess. Thanks for you comment.
Great hike Stan! That one grizz looked Huge!! I saw 4 woodpeckers by the front of our house in the same tree. Might be a nest. I need to get one of your scopes lol!!
Not word one on seeing mom and her 3 cubs seeing you and moving off. As well as that glance back as if to NOT notice you. But how do you get accustom to induvial bears, as in man sleep, eat, poop and want to make little ones. Momma bear looked in good shape and had 3 live cubs, hope they make it.
We were there in July and we saw a black bear and grizzly. Both were early morning as we were heading out to hikes we saw them from the road. The girz was foraging in near West Thumb and the lakefront. The black bear just ran across the road 75 yards ahead of us and was gone. We took a few backcountry hikes. Prior to going, we studied bear behavior (for a month or so) and how to properly respond if we had an encounter. Fortunatley, we had no on the ground encounters while in the backcountry. We made a ton of noise and used a pump air horn and blasted it every minute or so.
That's why you didn't see anything. You need to be quiet to see the amazing wildlife in Yellowstone. My question is, why hike Yellowstone if you don't want to see the wildlife? But maybe you don't. You may be hiking just to see the amazing beauty of Yellowstone. Glad you had a great time. Hope you make it back some day. Thanks for your comments.
I didn't see any other comments about the pair you show at about 5:00. I'm assuming, based on the time of year, that this could be a breeding pair. I'm pretty sure you would know. Is there a chance I'm right, based on your knowledge?
At 10:29 I see a group of young male elk - is that common for them to hang together? I haven't seen too many males congregate together before. The elk groups I've seen on video or at YNP are always the bull and the females.
Male elk commonly hang together in small groups, sometimes on the fringes of the much larger herds of females with young. In the rutting season these groups tend to break up as the bulls begin to compete with each other for females.
Stan - re: filming distance when you encounter bears, moose, or bull elk. I can sometimes make a rough guess of how zoomed you are based on the blur in the image, but I think it would be interesting (and responsible) to comment aloud (if possible) or to add a caption in post saying ‘150 yards away’ or something about your distance to the animals - this would make it clear to any would-be hikers following your footsteps that no, you aren’t actually standing there holding an iPhone up 20 feet away from a grizzly sow and 3 cubs. PS - the doe at 4:11 looked like she had a bambi-on-board.
Hi Stan, thank you for another beautiful video, loved the mumma bear and her three little cubs. Seeing the horseback riders, on another video there were a lot of horseback riders, leading horses carrying large canvas covered packs on their backs. Were these hunters? What would they be hunting? And what were the horses carrying? Is this all year? Sorry, but from the uk and learning, through you mostly, the life of Yellowstone National Park. Thanks Stan.
I can't comment on the other video you mention because I haven't seen it, and I don't know its location. However, I can provide a little information that might help in case Stan does not reply to your question. There is a lot of public land open to hunting around the park, but the park land itself is closed to hunting except for "control hunts" conducted by National Park staff and hired shooters. Fishing is permitted within the park boundaries. As is remote camping. People pursue such activities on their own, in "drop camps" and on guided trips provided by licensed outfitters. Big game that can be hunted in wilderness settings outside the boundaries of Yellowstone National Park include herbivores American Bison, Shiras Moose, Rocky Mountain Elk, Mule Deer, Whitetail Deer, Rocky Mountain Goat, Bighorn Sheep, Pronghorn Antelope and the omnivorous Black Bear and the carnivorous Wolf and Cougar. Coyotes, Bobcats and Foxes range through much of that country too, of course, and can be hunted, but most people do not consider them as game animals, though they can be challenging to hunt in some circumstances. Grizzly bears are protected, though their numbers are growing so much in portions of their range that people are lobbying for some limited hunting opportunities--recent years have seen several fatal mauling incidents. Hunting several of the species I mentioned above requires extraordinary luck before ever entering the field--licenses are severely limited and have to be drawn by application to specific lotteries. That is, unless a person is extremely wealthy and offers the winning bid for a "Governor's Tag." My answer applies specifically to Montana opportunities, as that is the state with which I am personally familiar; but it is also broadly applicable to Wyoming and Idaho. Wyoming, last I inquired, had an additional requirement that nonresidents of the state must hire guide/outfitter licensed by Wyoming if hunting on public lands.
@@jillyelston6145 You're welcome! And thank you for letting me know it was worth the effort😊. I've loved wilderness, especially the mountainous "high country" of North America* ever since my first exposure to it in my preteen years. I enjoy sharing information on the topic. I might even try my hand at making some TH-cam videos myself if I can get this old body back into shape enough to resume backpacking (have some property-related tasks eating up my time and am healing from a related injury). If you have other questions, especially related to wilderness adventure hunting, please feel free to ask. * Even with eight billion people inhabiting it, the world still contains vast and wonderful arrays of wilderness; I'm simply biased toward that fragment that I've been able to access with working class means. I enjoy the high plains and deserts here too, but the upper reaches of montane forests where they transition to alpine tundra have always been my favorite haunts.
If they're in the park they are just sightseeing or perhaps fishing.. there are quite a few outfitters that just take people into the backcountry just to view what you're seeing on film. The Yellowstone ecosystem which includes the Yellowstone Park and all the way on out to where the elk pasture in the winter is the size of Scotland.
Stan I am hooked and mesmerized by your exceptional videos but a question. I know you can see the grizzly's when you are walking in those rolling meadows but sometimes you appear to be walking close to a line of tall pines. How do you know that the grizzly and her cubs are just out of sight within the edge of the pines?
You are correct. During the day they are just inside the tree line. In fact, I have a video out there where I walked by a grizzly inside the tree line and it walks out behind me after I passed by. But normally I like to stay aways out from the tree line if I am seeing any type of fresh grizzly signs. I know that in this video, later in the day, I was hiking along the tree line but that is where the trail was.
Why are the elk herds so small? The largest group in this video was around 6 animals. The grizzly family was 4 strong. I would have thought that elk herds numbered at least dozens of animals.
Stan, how often do you see wolves? Just curious, as many of your videos are grizzly-centric. Is it that wolves are more attune to human presence while the grizzlies are pre-occupied, as you described in your last video?
I know 6 stories of people eaton by bears. How many you know? I've seen a grizzly run a caribou down, it took 3 miles, he never stopped running. The caribou couldn't go on. Don't be number 7.
I've hiked in griz country. Not sure why you want to put yourself in an area so close to a sow with cubs. I realize you're filming with a long lens but still, not necessary to take the risk.
All of Yellowstone and surrounding area called Yellowstone ecosystem has grizzly bears. If you are worried about grizzlies then you should not hike here. Getting close to moms and cubs or any grizzly bear is not something I try to do, it just happens based on the number of hours I hike in the Yellowstone ecosystem. There is risk in about everything you do. If you think the risk is to high then don’t do it. Or learn all you can about grizzlies before you go into their habitat to minimize the risk. Take a look at my channel.
So you’re out they’re tempting fate and when something happens the bear will have to pay the price. If one attacks you they will hunt it down and kill it. What’s the point?
1) Grizzly attacks on humans are very rare, numbering only a case or two per year among the many thousands of bear/human encounters in North America. People are killed much more frequently by other people and even dogs than they are by bears. 2) Bear spray defense is extremely effective, with 98% of the defensive uses of bear spray resulting in the person using the spray escaping uninjured. 3) Policy regarding bear attacks does not call for the killing of bears unless the attack was predatory (involving the bear attacking someone to eat them) or the attack exhibited unprovoked aggression. In other words bears are not killed in cases of females protecting their young, or bears reacting defensively to being frightened at close range. 4) In many of the remote places Stan is backpacking it would be likely that, if he were killed by a bear, it would never become known, or if it was discovered, it would be unlikely that the bear could ever be found and identified with the certainty that would permit its killing under existing policy. 5) In general, policy does not call for the killing of bears unless the attack falls outside the range of normal expected bear behavior. 6) Stan's knowledge of bears and his careful, observant behavior in bear country make it very unlikely that he will ever be attacked by a bear, and if he is, he will probably be able to defend himself without injury to himself or permanent harm to the bear. 7) According to you nobody should ever go backpacking in the vast reaches of North America where grizzlies exist-- that's a large part of western Montana, north Idaho, northwestern Wyoming, western Alberta, most of British Columbia, and virtually all of Alaska and the Yukon. That's ridiculous. Try not to be an egregious case of Dunning-Kruger syndrome,
Yes! Grizzly and black bears you can walk away or play dead! But black bears you walk away slowly and with cougars try to make your self as big as you can!😁🙂👍💅
@@bamorrison7931 grizzlies you play dead. Black bear attacks and you use the pepper spray. A black bear wants to consume you. A grizzly bear wants to remove a threat.
Luv2Hike, your life does not need to be a game of chance. You have the power to take control. The Lord wants to give you LIFE and freedom from fear. All you have to do is go to Him and ask. It’s a free gift!
Your videos are always such a joy! Thank you, Stan, for taking time for all that goes into these videos! It definitely adds a fair amount of work to your hikes (plus editing, ect)!
Such a beautiful video.... The area you're hiking through is just stunning! The wildlife, flowers, green grass, blue sky and clear water makes such a wondrous land to walk through! Thank you so much for sharing your fantastic hiking experience with us!
Hi Stan, I always enjoy the heck out of your videos, and appreciate all your efforts. The inclusion here of the close sweeps of the plant life add a nice touch. Thank you.
Very nice video Stan. Amazing to see triplets , the cutest cubs running around. The mama was surely mature not so worried , more mellow seeing you . The other bears in the sage brush was a good spotting on your hike you are sure good at spotting the wildlife!! Loved all the flowers an summer time lush green grass . My favorite time of year . Thank you for a great video enjoyed it very much.
Stan - it's VERY refreshing to ONLY hear the gentle breeze, an occasional buzzing of a bee or other sounds from nature. Most people who do similar outdoor videos think that by adding background music it adds to the viewer's experience. N.O.T. Thanks for being you...!! Have a most rewarding day, my brother.
But is he to quiet walking around there. Not sure i believe someone scares a bear, i think they don't like folks around where there grazing. Ppl have made noise, yell, etc, they still charge.
They remind me of the movie Cujo.
Boy you said it! It's nearly impossible to find good outdoor videos without music! It's so annoying. This is serene and peaceful. Thank you, Stan. Your channel is a true gem.
Wonderful video Stan. Sad that Yellowstone is so far from Alabama. My last trip there was 2019 with my grandson, his first trip but hopefully not his last. Thanks for all you do to bring a glimpse of God's beauty to those of us who can only make the trip occasionally!
Beautiful scenery. My daughter would have loved the flowers.
So enjoyed all the wildlife.
Thanks for what you do.
Beautiful as always Stan thank you
Again, thank you for your time and talents. You bring so much joy watching these video’s!
Another great hike, love those curious babies, fun to watch, thank you
another great video Stan, great shot at the grizzlies, the mom being tricolored hope she can raise the 3 cubs
I love the videos and the sounds of nature is so meditative!!
The way those grizzlies moved around in the brush you would never see them in time if you walked through there. A couple of times as you moved your camera around I completely lost track of them until they popped their head up.
You're right. One of these days he'll walk through brush, and he'll find a grizzly there. That could be his end. He seems too comfortable hiking there, near those beasts very capable to tear off one's head in a couple seconds. I hope not, but he's setting himself for a deadly encounter. He does not know where in a trail, in a bush he'll find one of these beasts and his bear spray will not save his life
@@mylovedwildanimals8520 Interesting how you know more than an expert who's been doing this his whole life. A perfect example of the Dunning-Kruger effect. Your ignorance of bear behavior is total. And yes, bear spray is effective against warding off bear attacks. Bear spray in the eyes and nasal passages is excruciatingly painful. Bears react to this the way any creature would-- they try immediately to escape. In 98% of cases involving defensive use of bear spray, the persons employing the spray have escaped uninjured. In general grizzlies react to humans by avoidance. They are highly intelligent animals and recognize humans as the exceedingly dangerous animals they are. Grizzly attacks on humans are very rare, numbering only a couple of instances per year in North America, despite the fact that human/grizzly encounters number in the many thousands in that span of time.
Thanks for taking me into the grizzly zone Stan,from the comfort of my own home.I live in Northern Ireland,we don’t have grizzlies,so no worries there whenever I go for a walk in the forest 😂😂😃
It is so beautiful up there now. The meadows are gorgeous and the critters look so good there. Loved the mom griz and the two cubs in the first part of the video. Eden. 💙🌸🐌🌙
Three cubs? I will have to go back and look! Your art is beautiful, Stan!
She had three cubs.
Very nice scenery out there!!, thank you for letting us see all this beauty!🙋♀️🤗🤓
Love watching your videos. Thanks so much sharing with us
Lying here in bed at the crack of dawn... sun light glow... Montain views and lush green pastures...
blue blue sky's sun's raise beaming... across the tree tops and Mountain Range... it's a calming Effect it's so peaceful there all the wildlife...Your a lucky man Stan. Great 👍 Video's
These videos are such a gift. Thank you.
GREAT VIDEO, BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY & WILDLIFE. THE ELK REALLY LOOK GOOD. YOU ARE A "LUCKY MAN". LOOKING FORWARD TO MORE VIDEOS. THANKS.
Thank you Stan. Really enjoyed it. We just came back from a one week trip to YS. Had a wonderful time. That’s the place where magic happens, all the time.
When I (a central European townie) go hiking, I am even scared of wild boars, let alone the prospect of meeting a bear.
Exactly what trail is this? This views are STUNNING!
Thanks for sharing another awesome video Stan. Enjoyed the bull elk also. Will you share which hike you were on or maybe just the area? Will have to enjoy Yellowstone vicariously through your videos this year.
Stan the man! Great video 👍
Beautiful nature.
Love your channel Stan!
Beautiful day in the park with bears and elk.
Always a joy to watch. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you Stan
Wow that was fun watching the grizzley with her cubs. Outstanding video!
That was really a great hike, just beautiful, thanks Stan!!
Great footage👍👍👍👍👍
Beautiful hike today !
Perhaps Sphinx Mountain around the 3:52 mark? Thanks as always, Stan.
No, but you are in the area.
So Stan, at 4:37 in the video when you swing the view of your camera off the bear, I believe that I hear a Velcro closure being opened. Were you getting some "bear dissuading device" 😉 ready at that moment?
This is the first time I have encountered one of your videos, and I want to echo a comment I read here. That is, I appreciate the no music, natural sounds only approach.
Back to viewing the rest of your video...
My bear spray is on my left shoulder strap and it has Velcro, and on my right shoulder strap is my monoscope. I was getting my scope out. The mom and cubs were about 300 yards away and the other bears were maybe 200 yards. Some people have been saying I should put the distance on my video. I will try to remember to do that from now on for bears, but the distances will still be my best guess. Thanks for you comment.
@@StanMills Thanks for taking the time to reply.
Great hike Stan! That one grizz looked Huge!! I saw 4 woodpeckers by the front of our house in the same tree. Might be a nest. I need to get one of your scopes lol!!
Beautiful!!
Your videos are just the best for those who value wildlife and nature. Thank you. Without giving away any details, is this area in the park?
Thanks for another excellent video!
Not word one on seeing mom and her 3 cubs seeing you and moving off. As well as that glance back as if to NOT notice you. But how do you get accustom to induvial bears, as in man sleep, eat, poop and want to make little ones. Momma bear looked in good shape and had 3 live cubs, hope they make it.
Cubs: Mom, it's Stan. We're going to be famous!
Mom: Stop talking and act natural.
Wow! Three cubs!
What a nice video
We were there in July and we saw a black bear and grizzly. Both were early morning as we were heading out to hikes we saw them from the road. The girz was foraging in near West Thumb and the lakefront. The black bear just ran across the road 75 yards ahead of us and was gone. We took a few backcountry hikes. Prior to going, we studied bear behavior (for a month or so) and how to properly respond if we had an encounter. Fortunatley, we had no on the ground encounters while in the backcountry. We made a ton of noise and used a pump air horn and blasted it every minute or so.
That's why you didn't see anything. You need to be quiet to see the amazing wildlife in Yellowstone. My question is, why hike Yellowstone if you don't want to see the wildlife? But maybe you don't. You may be hiking just to see the amazing beauty of Yellowstone. Glad you had a great time. Hope you make it back some day. Thanks for your comments.
Great video. She had three babies. Is that common? They all look very healthy. What do you think she weighs?
Lots of wildlife on this walk
Outstanding!
I didn't see any other comments about the pair you show at about 5:00. I'm assuming, based on the time of year, that this could be a breeding pair. I'm pretty sure you would know. Is there a chance I'm right, based on your knowledge?
Breeding season is basically over. But you could be right. I had the feeling these were 2 siblings. Siblings may stay together for a few years.
@@StanMills not sure how close you got - but were they arguing over whose turn it was to empty the dishwasher? If so, they were definitely siblings.
thank you stan; good times;
“. Here is some fresh water coming out of the ground”. Walks on by
are those clear areas/meadows there naturally or were they cleared out at one point in the past?
At 10:29 I see a group of young male elk - is that common for them to hang together? I haven't seen too many males congregate together before. The elk groups I've seen on video or at YNP are always the bull and the females.
Male elk commonly hang together in small groups, sometimes on the fringes of the much larger herds of females with young. In the rutting season these groups tend to break up as the bulls begin to compete with each other for females.
@@donnievance1942 Thank you!
Dang she is huge. 3 cubs 40 to 55 pounds she is nursing.
She has to be a non stop eating machine.
I hope they all make it.
Stan - re: filming distance when you encounter bears, moose, or bull elk. I can sometimes make a rough guess of how zoomed you are based on the blur in the image, but I think it would be interesting (and responsible) to comment aloud (if possible) or to add a caption in post saying ‘150 yards away’ or something about your distance to the animals - this would make it clear to any would-be hikers following your footsteps that no, you aren’t actually standing there holding an iPhone up 20 feet away from a grizzly sow and 3 cubs.
PS - the doe at 4:11 looked like she had a bambi-on-board.
Yes, that is a good idea. But the problem is that it is just my estimate and how accurate is that.
Hi Stan, thank you for another beautiful video, loved the mumma bear and her three little cubs. Seeing the horseback riders, on another video there were a lot of horseback riders, leading horses carrying large canvas covered packs on their backs. Were these hunters? What would they be hunting? And what were the horses carrying? Is this all year? Sorry, but from the uk and learning, through you mostly, the life of Yellowstone National Park. Thanks Stan.
I can't comment on the other video you mention because I haven't seen it, and I don't know its location. However, I can provide a little information that might help in case Stan does not reply to your question. There is a lot of public land open to hunting around the park, but the park land itself is closed to hunting except for "control hunts" conducted by National Park staff and hired shooters.
Fishing is permitted within the park boundaries. As is remote camping. People pursue such activities on their own, in "drop camps" and on guided trips provided by licensed outfitters. Big game that can be hunted in wilderness settings outside the boundaries of Yellowstone National Park include herbivores American Bison, Shiras Moose, Rocky Mountain Elk, Mule Deer, Whitetail Deer, Rocky Mountain Goat, Bighorn Sheep, Pronghorn Antelope and the omnivorous Black Bear and the carnivorous Wolf and Cougar. Coyotes, Bobcats and Foxes range through much of that country too, of course, and can be hunted, but most people do not consider them as game animals, though they can be challenging to hunt in some circumstances. Grizzly bears are protected, though their numbers are growing so much in portions of their range that people are lobbying for some limited hunting opportunities--recent years have seen several fatal mauling incidents. Hunting several of the species I mentioned above requires extraordinary luck before ever entering the field--licenses are severely limited and have to be drawn by application to specific lotteries. That is, unless a person is extremely wealthy and offers the winning bid for a "Governor's Tag."
My answer applies specifically to Montana opportunities, as that is the state with which I am personally familiar; but it is also broadly applicable to Wyoming and Idaho. Wyoming, last I inquired, had an additional requirement that nonresidents of the state must hire guide/outfitter licensed by Wyoming if hunting on public lands.
@@willong1000 wow! Thank you so much for taking the time to explain so much to me. I really appreciate it!
@@jillyelston6145 You're welcome! And thank you for letting me know it was worth the effort😊. I've loved wilderness, especially the mountainous "high country" of North America* ever since my first exposure to it in my preteen years. I enjoy sharing information on the topic. I might even try my hand at making some TH-cam videos myself if I can get this old body back into shape enough to resume backpacking (have some property-related tasks eating up my time and am healing from a related injury). If you have other questions, especially related to wilderness adventure hunting, please feel free to ask.
* Even with eight billion people inhabiting it, the world still contains vast and wonderful arrays of wilderness; I'm simply biased toward that fragment that I've been able to access with working class means. I enjoy the high plains and deserts here too, but the upper reaches of montane forests where they transition to alpine tundra have always been my favorite haunts.
If they're in the park they are just sightseeing or perhaps fishing.. there are quite a few outfitters that just take people into the backcountry just to view what you're seeing on film. The Yellowstone ecosystem which includes the Yellowstone Park and all the way on out to where the elk pasture in the winter is the size of Scotland.
Your videos are relaxing.
What part of the park are you hiking?
How does your wife deal with your “dangerous “ adventures? Do you get phone service out there if something happened? Wow, beautiful beautiful stuff!
I have a satellite phone. InReach
Good Stuff Yup
Stan I am hooked and mesmerized by your exceptional videos but a question. I know you can see the grizzly's when you are walking in those rolling meadows but sometimes you appear to be walking close to a line of tall pines. How do you know that the grizzly and her cubs are just out of sight within the edge of the pines?
You are correct. During the day they are just inside the tree line. In fact, I have a video out there where I walked by a grizzly inside the tree line and it walks out behind me after I passed by. But normally I like to stay aways out from the tree line if I am seeing any type of fresh grizzly signs. I know that in this video, later in the day, I was hiking along the tree line but that is where the trail was.
How far away were you from the sow and her 3 cubs in the first minute of this video. It appears that she saw you, but didn't feel threatened
I am guessing about 250 yards. I can see she looked right at me but I don’t think she noticed me standing there not moving.
Run up to the cubs to let mama bear know you are friendly 🐻🐿
She already knows that.
It’s astounding to me that such a big animal like a grizzly can appear and disappear behind Sage brush or an embankment. Wow!!
Yup just to think, a 500 to 750 lb bear you'll never hear coming.
Why are the elk herds so small? The largest group in this video was around 6 animals. The grizzly family was 4 strong. I would have thought that elk herds numbered at least dozens of animals.
Bands of elk vary a great deal in size, from a relative handful to many hundreds, depending on the habitat, and time of year.
Please show some wolf encounters.
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I have a playlist on my channel that is all wolf encounters. Here is one of those videos: th-cam.com/video/3iM_gt20Phk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=F9cPZVX5uRNR5GIm
Yellow flowers? Pink flowers? White flowers?
You could do have more
Stan, how often do you see wolves? Just curious, as many of your videos are grizzly-centric. Is it that wolves are more attune to human presence while the grizzlies are pre-occupied, as you described in your last video?
I know 6 stories of people eaton by bears. How many you know? I've seen a grizzly run a caribou down, it took 3 miles, he never stopped running. The caribou couldn't go on. Don't be number 7.
Always good to see baby bears
Edit bazza from the antelope federation Umm Not really
What area is this ?
Yellow Stone Park- Montana⛰ ⭐
Thanks dad 🙄
I intentionally didn’t give the area because of hunting.
I've hiked in griz country. Not sure why you want to put yourself in an area so close to a sow with cubs. I realize you're filming with a long lens but still, not necessary to take the risk.
All of Yellowstone and surrounding area called Yellowstone ecosystem has grizzly bears. If you are worried about grizzlies then you should not hike here. Getting close to moms and cubs or any grizzly bear is not something I try to do, it just happens based on the number of hours I hike in the Yellowstone ecosystem. There is risk in about everything you do. If you think the risk is to high then don’t do it. Or learn all you can about grizzlies before you go into their habitat to minimize the risk. Take a look at my channel.
So you’re out they’re tempting fate and when something happens the bear will have to pay the price. If one attacks you they will hunt it down and kill it. What’s the point?
1) Grizzly attacks on humans are very rare, numbering only a case or two per year among the many thousands of bear/human encounters in North America. People are killed much more frequently by other people and even dogs than they are by bears.
2) Bear spray defense is extremely effective, with 98% of the defensive uses of bear spray resulting in the person using the spray escaping uninjured.
3) Policy regarding bear attacks does not call for the killing of bears unless the attack was predatory (involving the bear attacking someone to eat them) or the attack exhibited unprovoked aggression. In other words bears are not killed in cases of females protecting their young, or bears reacting defensively to being frightened at close range.
4) In many of the remote places Stan is backpacking it would be likely that, if he were killed by a bear, it would never become known, or if it was discovered, it would be unlikely that the bear could ever be found and identified with the certainty that would permit its killing under existing policy.
5) In general, policy does not call for the killing of bears unless the attack falls outside the range of normal expected bear behavior.
6) Stan's knowledge of bears and his careful, observant behavior in bear country make it very unlikely that he will ever be attacked by a bear, and if he is, he will probably be able to defend himself without injury to himself or permanent harm to the bear.
7) According to you nobody should ever go backpacking in the vast reaches of North America where grizzlies exist-- that's a large part of western Montana, north Idaho, northwestern Wyoming, western Alberta, most of British Columbia, and virtually all of Alaska and the Yukon. That's ridiculous. Try not to be an egregious case of Dunning-Kruger syndrome,
I heard you ran into grizzly bear you are to play dead🤔
Yes! Grizzly and black bears you can walk away or play dead! But black bears you walk away slowly and with cougars try to make your self as big as you can!😁🙂👍💅
@@bamorrison7931 grizzlies you play dead. Black bear attacks and you use the pepper spray. A black bear wants to consume you. A grizzly bear wants to remove a threat.
Nope, they still come at u. Again they mastered ripping yr Arse apart. I'll play dead right in this bed.
I want your life.
It's just a matter of time....⚰️💀☠️
Luv2Hike, your life does not need to be a game of chance. You have the power to take control. The Lord wants to give you LIFE and freedom from fear. All you have to do is go to Him and ask. It’s a free gift!
Nice footage of Alaska and elk, but not much about Grizzlies like the title implies
First of all-He is in Montana second of of all there is quite a bit of grizzlies including CUBS!
Thank you Stan