Grizzly Man diaries

[Run-A-Muck Ranch]

I have seen the documentary, movie and the programs played on t.v. about him.
I liked watching them. Not for this or that reason. I just enjoyed watching the shows.
I don't think it was right or wrong. I really hadn't thought to much about that part of any of it....
BUT.....what I was wondering/thinking....

His girlfriend that came up the last 2 weeks or so....She hadn't been there before-or if she was not that often(can't remember all of it now.). Anyway...This is only my thought on this.....Her sents were all new to the bears, they could of felt unsafe with her sents, they knew what his sents were and felt somewhat safe around him. I just thought maybe it was the smells of someone else that had upset the bears enough to do what bears do naturally and kill compatition/threats....Like something else was invading there space and they were not comfortable with it type of theory...I know this probably isn't correct, but again it was my first thought.
Wether he was or wasn't doing the right or wrong thing never really stopped me in my tracks though...

 

[eggzettera]

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Similar thoughts/scents......

 

[maplesky7]

I thought I remembered she had come up there on several occasions but since he wanted to portray he was there on his own...she was left out of the shot. But in one tall tale shot, the man is being video'd but with a hand held recorder and not on a tripod....suggesting it was her behind the camera.

I think there was speculation she was on her mensus...wasn't there?

All in all...
They were in the right place at the wrong time.

He was passionate about his work. This woman chose to be with him despite the risks. I watched the film and thought what a quirky guy but it's not up to me to judge. I understood him to be someone looking out for the bear. That was his cause. So be it.

So he died while out retrieving footage for his cause and waiting for his plane. He himself said that was ok if it did happen.

I have a friend who works on top the Golden Gate bridge, I have a husband in Iraq...they have risky jobs but it's their choice.

So we say...what a sad thing to end that way but what beautiful footage and a deeper insight to one of God's creatures and it's habitats and perhaps it touches someone in a way that they further the protection of the bear and it's wildlife in someway.

End of story.

me,
g

 

[Zookeeper9000]

She had been going with him for the whole trip for a couple of years if I remember correctly. It also said she kept a diary and that it said she planned on leaving him when she got back.

In his diary in the last days he talked about having a run in with a bear and that it was one of the only times he felt really threatened and he expected more trouble from this bear and was glad they were leaving soon. I seen that on the show that had his friends talking about how they were sad the man who made the movie showed him in such a bad light.

The worse part of the movie in my opinion was when he sat with the old girl friend and listened to the recording of the last minutes of their lives, then he asked if she had listened to it, she said no and he told her to destroy it. She didn't but hey lets face it everyone wanted to hear that tape. It is why most rented the movie. Truth be told it is why I rented the movie and who was he to say that it was too bad for anyone but him to listen to.

 

[chicknmania]

Verboten are you sure he didn't have a show or a contract for a show when he was alive? He said more than once what a comfortable lifestyle he had at home in California, nice apartment, nice motorcycle, etc, and that he owed his success to the animals...sounds like he was pretty well off at that time...this was towards the end of the series.

 

[chicknmania]

Also, I read somewhere that originally he had a contract with Discovery Channel, and Animal Planet showed a couple of Discovery Channel's documentaries which were called "Grizzly Diaries". They were narrated differently, more like Steve Irwin's stuff.

 

[mom'sfolly]

This got me interested in bear attacks, so I investigated a little. This site is very interesting.

http://www.absc.usgs.gov/research/brownbears/attacks/bear-human_conflicts.htm

 

[kinnip]

The guy was an idiot hack. His only concern was showing off in front of a camera. He didn't have the depth of concern to approach the situation scientifically, with appropriate training and respect for the bears' lifestyle and territory. There are many people who are professionals who go out and study these animals without theatrics. It takes decades of study, and they walk away with real, minimally corrupted data, not a t.v. show. They write boring, but meaningful papers that show a real picture of bears in the wild. This guy put on a spectacle. Honestly, I think it ended exactly the way he wanted it to. He was a sick person. He purposefully pressed boundaries that he knew he shouldn't. His behaviour was reckless and self-destructive. Ultimately, he did nothing for those animals and made himself a star.

 

[maplesky7]

...and yet he wasn't the only bear enthousiast to get eaten by a bear.


no matter how you look at it...it can happen.


me,
g