Huckleberries are an important source of food for bears, so if you are out picking, make sure to watch!
Here is a recent story published in the Spokesman Review Outdoors Blog by Rich Landers …
Berry picker suffers bites after surprising grizzly
A park employee, while off duty picking huckleberries in the Swiftcurrent valley, surprised what is believed to be a grizzly bear. She sustained non-life threatening injuries to the leg and the hands. The surprise encounter which led to a non-predatory attack occurred on Saturday in the early evening.
The woman walked most of the Swiftcurrent Pass Trail back before she was met by park rangers an taken to medical help.
She was carrying bear spray but it was not deployed. Hikers reported a grizzly bear sow and two cubs leaving the area shortly after the incident.
The last Glacier National Park visitor injury by a grizzly bear was on Sept. 29, 2015, when a 65-year old male hiker surprised a sow grizzly with two sub-adult cubs, receiving puncture wounds to his lower leg and injuries to his hand.
