Incredible experience today. Met a grizzly right in the middle of the road. When we first saw her - and it was definitely a her because we saw her pee - she was a few hundred feet off.
She then made her way slowly and purposefully towards our car. When she began to get too close I backed up. She advanced a little more. Not aggressively, just quietly, almost thoughtfully. I stopped backing up and she stopped too, turning first this way and then that way. Then she spun around this way and that. Then she showed us her bottom, had a little sniff at a traffic cone and then began advancing again.
Her behaviour was intriguing. A couple more times I backed off and then eventually decided that we had reversed enough and kept the car still. She came right up to the side of the car before moving away to fish, as if she didn't have a care in the world. Definitely one of the most memorable experiences we've had with bears since coming to the ranch.
