Season 2, Episode 5 - It’s all bear country!

Season 2, Episode 5 - It’s all bear country!
Backcountry Bizarre

Join us this week for a 6-week 600-mile canoe trip through the northwest territories of Canada! Featuring a surprise Grizzly bear.

SOURCES for this episode:

The boy from Minnesota worried about capsizing as he canoed through the Canadian Northwest Territories. What he encountered was more terrifying than any white water By Elle Hunt

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/may/23/17-year-old-versus-600lb-grizzly-bear-i-was-going-to-die-alex-messenger-ordeal-wilderness

Wilderness Canoe Trip: Surviving a Grizzly Attack

https://www.bendingbranches.com/blogs/resources/wilderness-canoe-trip-surviving-grizzly-attack

Camp Menogyn website 

https://www.ymcanorth.org/adventure/locations/camp_menogyn

ENCOUNTERING A BEAR

https://www.heybear.com/pages/bear-encounters

Backcountry Bizarre is hosted by Zoe Leake, co-hosted this week by Silas Phillips. 

Audio is produced and edited by Scott Mathson at the Recording Center in Missoula, Montana 

Cover art by Emma Harrison, @emmharr 

Music by The Skurfs, @theskurfs

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