Originally Posted by
Ty0604
I shared this thread with my friend, a lifetime resident of West Yellowstone, and he agreed: All the fret about bears on here is like a comedy show.
The odds of getting attacked by a bear in Yellowstone are 1 in 2.1 million. Want to know other stuff you have better odds getting injured from? Swimming (1 in 1 million), running/jogging/walking (1 in 1 million), Hiking (1 in 15,700), Flying (1.27 in 100,000), Dance parties (1 in 100,000) and the best one of yet? Cycling! (1 in 140,845). That's right! You're nearly 14 times more likely to be injured cycling than by a bear.
Forget the bears, cycling is dangerous
Folks from Colorado used to laugh about flatlanders driving into the mountains & trying to feed grizzlies & getting mauled. Dunno how often it really happened; OTOH they noted that grizzlies can run amazingly fast (25 mph). & once a grizzly pawed at the outside of their tent, kinda scary but it wandered away.