(1st female voice) We came across the river and were headed
on to the black top path
and got past, is it Castle Geyser that's down there?
(2nd female voice) Well we were trying to get to Old Faithful.
(male voice) We were in a hurry to get to Old Faithful
(2nd female voice) so not really paying attention, I guess...
(male voice) and we figured, you know, we'd been on the boardwalk
five or six times so far
there's a lot of people...never seen bears
we have bear spray but we left it in the car
(1st female voice) And then we could see as the ranger vehicle
got a little closer to us, they turned on their lights.
I thought oh, they probably want to pass or, you know,
there might be something farther up the trail.
So we stopped and stood by the trail, and the ranger vehicle
came right up to us, and that's when you said:
(male voice) I saw the bear. Had we kept going, we would have been
on the trail the same time the bear would have crossed the trail.
We were 20, 25 yards from the bear when I saw it
And I thought, I don't have bear spray
that bear is awful close
Fortunately the ranger was there,
but I was starting to panic.
(2nd female voice) Yeah.
(1st female voice) And it was a grizzly bear.
(male voice) Yeah.
(1st female voice) And it walked right right across the path
and past us and down through the field.
And like you said, we would have been right there on the path
when the bear came.
(male voice) So, I'm going to be sleeping with bear spray tonight.
/laughter/
and the next time we hike anywhere, we will
have our bear spray with us.