[rhughes]

A couple of weeks ago I came across Glacier Park's Night of the Grizzlies in the middle of the program on my local PBS station. I was engrossed by the last part of the 2010 documentary and ordered the DVD of the program from the Montana PBS online shop. On one night during the summer of 1967 two women in two different locations in Glacier were killed by two different grizzly bears. One of the deaths occurred near Granite Park Chalet on the Highline Trail and the other woman died at Trout Lake, north over a ridge from the Lake McDonald Ranger Station. In the Granite Park attack a man was severely injured and at Trout Lake another man suffered minor injuries. The documentary is composed of interviews of those who were there at the time; chalet guests, park employees, and two who were involved in the attacks. In addition to the interviews activities relating to the two attack events have been artfully recreated to provide a visual sense of what went on. For me, someone who has been to Granite Park Chalet a number of times and who has descended the loop trail alone, the sense of place and activity comes alive through the documentary. Anyone who has visited Glacier and thought about grizzly bears - and who hasn't - will find this 90-minute documentary most interesting.

[captain jack]

I watched the whole thing, and it scared the bejesus outta me. Black bears are one thing, but Grizzlies are no joke. I remember camping in Banff in 1965, when I was a little dude, in a tent trailer, with a thin layer of Coleman canvas separating me from anything, trying to fall asleep while listening to the hungry Grizzlies, feet away, rummaging through the campsite dumpster. I also remember, on the highway up to Jasper, stopping to feed hungry Grizzlies with others, like it was a normal, everyday thing.

[cdestroyer]

if you want to learn about grizzly bears you should research frank and john craighead and maurice hornocker who studied them for 12 years in ynp...hornocker was a family friend and on visiting him you might find wolves, owls or eagles in his back yard in missoula mt...maurice later went on to teach at moscow idaho. he also tagged the big cats of north america..

[AlpineRose]

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me..... Experiencing up close and personal that you are NOT always at the top of the food chain does something to you. Something good.

[rhughes]

I have learned that you can view the documentary online at: http://backcountrypost.com/threads/night-of-the-grizzlies-documentary.5362/