🐻 151 Spring #fatbears #bearstr #katmai

🐻 775 Lefty #fatbears #bearstr #katmai

🐻 719 July 10, 2018 #fatbears #bearstr #katmai

🐻 480 Otis #fatbears #bearstr #katmai

🐻 747 Sept #fatbears #bearstr #katmai

🐻 482 Yearling in July #fatbears #bearstr #katmai

🐻 747 exhausted from fishing #fatbears #bearstr #katmai

🐻 854 in July #fatbears #bearstr #katmai

🐻 435 Holly #fatbears #bearstr #katmai

#bearstr #fatbears #katmai

🐻 634 Popeye at the edge of Brooks River 2 #fatbears #bearstr #katmai

🐻 32 Spring #fatbears #bearstr #katmai

🐻 634 Popeye at the edge of Brooks River #fatbears #bearstr #katmai

🐻 435 Holly, Fat Bear Week 2019 Champion #fatbears #bearstr #katmai

🐻 856 June 29, 2018 #fatbears #bearstr #katmai

🐻 171 and spring cub enjoying an empty camp #fatbears #bearstr #katmai

🐻 32 Chunk who lives up to his name #fatbears #bearstr #katmai

🐻 151 Walker #fatbears #bearstr #katmai

🐻 128 Comparison #fatbears #bearstr #katmai

Outrunning a bear isn't just difficult. It's basically impossible. Grizzlies can hit around 35 mph, maybe 40, which blows past any human sprint ever recorded. Usain Bolt at his fastest only touched 27 to 28. Their muscle and those long claws give them serious grip on real terrain too, steep slopes, soft ground, thick forest. So running just isn't the move. Better to stay alert, don't surprise the animal, and keep calm if you do run into one. Awareness wins over speed every time against something built for both power and pace. #bearstr #fatbears #Katmai