interesting story on how fast they can move:

http://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/ga...d-why-you-can-never-outrun-charging-bear

Watch this video of a sow chasing a cow elk. The elk makes a fatal mistake but the bear was gaining anyway. Are you faster than an elk?

damn, that's impressive!

Grizzlies are very fast. 56 years ago, I worked in Glacier National Park and we had a bad griz attack on a party of 4; 2 were badly mauled and the third was just mauled on the right leg and back. Fast and strong!!!

Thanks for the video.

Looks like it hurts.

little background on this. last fall grandson and i were up north and i stopped on a hill for everybody to take a pee. my dog and him wandered off out of sight. He came back and said there was a lot of "poop" in the trees. I said did it look like a baby ruth. He looked at me funny but said yes.
so i went down and took a look, yep, black bear. He had no belt on his pants, wandered out of sight. I told him there was a good and a bad.
that was?
i said i have more than one grandson and my dog could outrun him, but a bear living there. How do you know that? Well lets see, it's pooping all over the place, there is a rock ledge face for denning not far away, berries on the trees and a water source couple hundred yards away. Does a bear poop in the woods? yes a lot. And a discussion about black bears that normally try to avoid you but then don't. And you are in their front yard.
I sent the article to him, i think he got the point.
The other thing was i had loaned him a glock that morning, he left it in the glove compartment.