A good way to get the adrenaline going in the am. I prefer coffee. You called it a Brown Bear but I CA doesn't have Brown Bears in residence, just Black Bears. Perhaps I am overthinking this and you were just commenting on the coloring. :) Your channel is great BTW do not want this to sound critical.

@Joe-ve8yw

Ай бұрын

Black bears are categorized by their claws. They can be black , blonde, cinnamon or multiple.

@wildernesswithamani1027

Ай бұрын

That's exactly it. It was brown so brown bear just came out. Black bear is in the title because I was way calmer sitting in my living room posting the video. No script, sudden encounter with an apex predator in heavy brush, the words don't always come out right! I've had dozens of encounters with black bears in the Sierra Nevada range over the decades. Trust me, I know what they are! I hope I never see one again but that's unlikely. I have several bear clips on my wildlife encounter playlist just from the 4+ years I've had my channel.

Thx for sharing. Glad it went well!!!

@wildernesswithamani1027

Ай бұрын

I'm glad it went well too! I've seen enough bears in the wild where I would be glad to never run into another bear again. It used to be exciting but now it's just uncomfortable. Especially when I am backpacking. If I hike into North Yosemite again this Fall I'm pretty sure there will be bears though.

That is crazy - glad things were ok - bears and I do not mix very well either unless they are the Chicago Bears LOL - catch you next time🎣👊👍

@wildernesswithamani1027

Ай бұрын

I hate seeing bears in heavy brush like that but I hate seeing them in the backcountry when all I have to separate us is a tent! Football will be here before we know it. I'm ready now!

I was in South Lake last Sunday. One that size ran right across Ski Run at the marina and crashed through the muddy swamp behind ihop lol

@wildernesswithamani1027

Ай бұрын

I think I have seen enough bears over the decades to satisfy me. What I hate is having bears hang around when I'm backpacking. When they come around there is no fall back secure position! A tent just makes for a possible confusing interaction! Surprise during an encounter is no good!

When we get outdoors, we share the habitat with all the creatures. I really enjoy these encounters, especially when they go well.

@wildernesswithamani1027

Ай бұрын

I enjoy them as well. Bear encounters can be tense but after it's that experience can make a trip special. With that said, I've seen enough bears in the wild! Especially when I'm backpacking and there is no safe fall back position!

Bear spray Sir also a loud air horn too.

@wildernesswithamani1027

Ай бұрын

I'm more afraid of crazy humans in remote forest areas with road access!

Stay safe out there!

@wildernesswithamani1027

Ай бұрын

As safe as I can be!

Amani. I noticed you didn’t have your ice chest with you. Good thing. Bears where I go seem to know people carry snacks in backpacks and ice chest’s. See ya buddy

@wildernesswithamani1027

Ай бұрын

The only time I got caught with a cooler out was when I was cooking dinner at a trailhead in one of my clips. That video is on my wildlife encounter playlist and that was the first time out of a lot of bear encounters over the decades where I thought I might actually have physical conflict with one of these animals. I did not want that bear to get my food so I stood my ground. I was pushing through heavy brush in marshy grass here just trying to fish. Not a place I hope to run into a bear. The last thing I want is to surprise one. I was inertially making noise after I had this run in but I should have been more mindful of that from the start. I need to watch some of my own bear safety clips!

@scrick7112

Ай бұрын

@@wildernesswithamani1027 lol. You know they say black bears don’t attack humans. Wise old saying says black bears don’t attack you till they do. lol see ya bud

I know the feeling and spike in adrenalin. Had similar encounters with Brown bears while hiking rivers on Kodiak Island while fishing for King and Sockeye salmon. Luckily, like most bears they go their separate ways.

@wildernesswithamani1027

Ай бұрын

Grizzlies are a whole different ballgame! I wouldn't be so calm in the situation you are describing. Black bears, I'll take my chances. Hiking around Kodiak Island had to be intense.

Hey that bear was a huge fan of your channel and was wondering if he could get an autograph and maybe a fish

@travisk5589

Ай бұрын

He knew that Amani always produces fresh fish and was trying to lead Amani to the bears favorite fishing hole

@wildernesswithamani1027

Ай бұрын

It was moving out quick. When I first came upon it the bear was really close to me in the heavy brush. I started yelling to scare it immediately so by the time the camera came on the bear was already moving off at a steady rate. My priority is always to get the bear moving away first and then whatever footage I get is what it is!

dang! glad your cool bro!

@wildernesswithamani1027

Ай бұрын

It was all good. When I first saw it in the heavy brush it was way too close for my liking but I got it moving away with some yelling right away and it did what I hoped it would. By the time I got the camera on it was already moving away to a safer distance.

Nothing will get your attention like a large bear in the woods.😌

@CC_Marauder

Ай бұрын

Co-eds skinny dipping in the river does the same. What? It happens. 🤞🏻

@wildernesswithamani1027

Ай бұрын

It got my attention for sure!

It’s always exciting when you encounter a bear while fishing. Usually they just amble away. Usually.

@wildernesswithamani1027

Ай бұрын

Usually is right! I've had 2 encounters where they wouldn't run away. In a video on my wildlife encounter playlist where I'm cooking dinner at a trailhead around dusk I thought I was actually going to have to fight that thing off! That thing was circling me and huffing and puffing as I tried to gather my cooking stuff. I was actually feeling real uneasy!

I've gotten close to few, but they always run off when they see me.

@wildernesswithamani1027

Ай бұрын

That's been my experience nearly every time but 2. Once a buddy and I came back to our camp in the King's Canyon back country and we had a big bear sitting in our camp. I waived my arms, yelled, blew my whistle but that thing could have cared less. It just sat there and looked at me. If it could have given me the finger it would have been perfect. We just left to go fishing and when we came back in a few hours it was gone. In a clip on my wildlife encounter playlist where I'm making quesadillas at a trailhead right before dark and a bear walked up on me, that was the first time out of dozens of encounters where I thought I might actually have contact with a bear and I mean in an ugly way. That bear was showing some real troubling signs of aggression.

Possibly would have wanted to get to know you better if you had a big fishing bag full of nice ripe 20-in rainbows...

@wildernesswithamani1027

Ай бұрын

Yeah, when I see a bear it's always nice when I haven't caught anything yet. I hate seeing bears when I'm backpacking and I have been catching a lot of fish every day. I'm typically releasing everything but my net, my hands, my clothes all smell like fish. I do the complete clothing change before bed and then I put my fishing clothes and my net far away from my camp.

Truckee black bears (most brown in color) are very big thanks to access to human foods and short hibernations. Fortunately, they seldom have troubled encounters with humans except maybe when running out of a person's home ("cabin"). Those behaviors may be quite different from much smaller black bears in other locales.

@travisk5589

Ай бұрын

Lol, seldom? Bears breaking into homes is a Daily occurence in the greater lake tahoe area. It just doesnt get reported on the news. Follow the fish and game blogs. They are currently trying to rehome about 40 troublesome bears. They will most likely be destroyed. I agree, its the human involvement but... Its part of the deal

@ronmodafferi8202

Ай бұрын

@@travisk5589 Seldom was an adjective for "encounters" with humans not breaking into their homes. Relocated bears (brown and black species) most always find their way back "home" even in remote areas. Some Tahoe bears "run" into trouble even when leaving the home they just entered. Most of my experience is with black bears in Alaska where encounters with humans at times have terrible results.

@wildernesswithamani1027

Ай бұрын

I have a boatload of experience with black bears. backpacking is the worst because if they are persistent in coming into my camp there is no where to fall back to. The video on my wildlife encounter playlist where the bear shows up at a trailhead while I'm cooking quesadillas was the only time I thought I might actually have contact with a black Bear. I think it was truing to bluff it's way into scaring me off far enough so It could get my food but I hung in there. That's a common tactic problem bears heavily imprinted by humans use. Scare people off so they can raid their stuff. At the end of that clip you can see it walk down and jump up ion the table. I hung my food for over two decades and never lost my food to bears doing it even when my camp would get torn up. I have a video on the method I use , I think, on my outdoor safety playlist. With that said, I love bear canisters these days. So much more convenient but knowing how to effectively hang stuff from black bears is a good skill to have.

@ronmodafferi8202

Ай бұрын

@@wildernesswithamani1027 I'll have to check out your videos; they sound very interesting and informative.. My limited experience with black bear is 4 years (1976-80) in Prince William Sound (Whittier), Alaska where I trapped and radio collared them on salmon spawning streams in August and also, in early spring, when I dart-tranquilized them in from helicopter. I relocated collared bear aerially from super cub aircraft for 3-4 years. I also aerially counted black and brown bears in mountains north and west of Anchorage, AK in fall comparing which fed mostly on berries in alpine tundra type habitat. I'm always interested in learning more about black bear. I believe, Steve Herrero, a Canadian biologist, years back compiled and "scrutinized" all available information on bear human interactions. Nice communicating with you !!

@CC_Marauder

Ай бұрын

Repeat from below... 06/10/24 Black Bear "excerpt" as printed in The Epoch Times... "Residents in the tiny northern town of Downieville, about 60 miles northwest of Truckee, are accustomed to living with wildlife and bears roaming neighborhoods. They make sure their trash is secure and they don’t leave bird feeders out. But since November (2023), when a bear mauled an elderly resident to death in her home, locals are growing more concerned." Just saying to everyone, keep your head on a swivel whenever you're on their turf. Which is far and wide in the states.

Ohh man I don’t want to encounter one especially a mama bear

@wildernesswithamani1027

Ай бұрын

I don't want to encounter them either. It used to be exciting but now it's just uncomfortable and sometimes scary. I've had run ins with mamas and her cubs. Absolutely hate that.

That will make your hair stand up

@wildernesswithamani1027

Ай бұрын

Yes it will. I was cool once it was walking away but I first noticed it when It was standing about10 feet away through some heavy brush. It started yanking on the brush I think to scare me and I started yelling and waiving my arms. By the time the camera came on it was already walking away.

We had a bear eat our stringer at Ellery lake at the Tioga Pass. Once we were a safe distance from it, my GF starts throwing rocks at it. Yeah right.

@wildernesswithamani1027

Ай бұрын

I lost a stringer of fish to a bear back in the 90's. I also had to throw a stringer of fish down the shoreline once in North Yosemite backcountry to get a mother and it's cubs to go away from where they had my friend Eric and I pinned out on a fallen tree we were fishing from up at Laurel Lake. Once the bears went for the fish we scurried off the tree and as we were retreating down the trail in the other direction one of the cubs started following us and that was not ideal!

I think you better start carrying Bear Spray.....

@WesleyKor9

Ай бұрын

You don’t need one in black bear territory. The most harm black bears do is stealing your food.

@CC_Marauder

Ай бұрын

"The most harm black bears do is stealing your food." 💯 Falsehood

@WesleyKor9

Ай бұрын

@@CC_Marauder I live in Tahoe, one of the highest concentration of black bears in the country and encounter literally dozens of them every single year. They don’t want anything to do with you and unless you provoke them the attacks on humans are extremely rare. Bear spray was developed for grizzly bears, and in fact carrying it is even banned in some places with only black bears population (Yosemite and Sequoia NP are example).

@CC_Marauder

Ай бұрын

I'm a multi-generational native Californian whose 56 yo. I've camped all over this state from corner to corner, too many times to count. Sequoia NP is my favorite place on earth and only a couple hours from my Cali Central Coast home. Black bear attacks ARE extremely rare. Which means they do occasionally attack AND kill humans. Which is the point I'm trying to make clear to others. No one wants to be the anomoly. Words/semantics matter. ✌🏼

@WesleyKor9

Ай бұрын

@@CC_Marauder I get your point 🤝

Stay strapped with something.

@wildernesswithamani1027

Ай бұрын

I only pack heat when I am in remote National forest areas with road access. I'm more worried about encountering humans that are unstable, tweekers, wanted by the law, growing dope, etc. when I'm in the middle of nowhere and there is no hope of phone service. Some of the scariest serial killers in history came out of the foothills close to Yosemite. Richard Stainer (Groveland, CA), Leonard Lake, and Charles Ng (Calaveras County) are not the type of lunatics I ever want to run into. I'm good with my fists but that's not enough out there. If this was grizzly country, I'd always be packing some high caliber heat but in these mountains I don't worry much about bears.

@CC_Marauder

Ай бұрын

How does that go? Oh yeah, Right On! 👍🏻

I have some bad news. There are no brown bears in California or Nevada. Bears that are brown around Lake Tahoe are black bears (Ursus americanus). In fact, black bears can vary in color from blue-gray, blue-black, brown, or cinnamon. Brown bears ((Ursus arctos) can range from reddish to yellowish-brown and dark brown to cream. Black bears are relatively docile, not like browns, polars or Grizzlies. Last summer, I had a black bear come into my camp at Crag Lake and steal my backpack. My friend and I chased him for about a quarter mile, throwing sticks and rocks and screaming at the tops of our lungs. He finally dropped my pack, which had a brand-new pair of $200 hiking pants in it, and he ran off. I once had a black bear sit in the top of my apple tree and eat the apples while I shot him numerous times with my Nikon. He even seemed to pose for me. Learn to love the black bears. They are magnificent and fun creatures. Up in Incline Village, a Sheriff loaded two rubber rounds into a 12 gage, followed by two double aught buck rounds. She didn't realize that the last round in come out first. She accidently killed Jasper, a mama bear with three 14-month cubs. Residents were irate. There was even a memorial service for Jasper.

@wildernesswithamani1027

Ай бұрын

It says black bear in the title of the clip. When I see a bear it's a sudden thing and my words might not always be accurate, especially in a situation like this. The bear was brown so I guess my brain just blurted it out but that's what happens when you first see the thing 10 feet away from you in thick brush. By the time my camera came on I had already yelled at it and it was moving away. after having dozens of bear encounters over 4 decades in the Sierra Nevada range I pretty much have the black bear identification thing down.

@michaelperine2333

Ай бұрын

@@wildernesswithamani1027 Sorry, I am eighty years old. While my eyesight is still very good, I nevertheless fail to see things that I am looking right at.

As a single women who hikes alone, I would much rather encounter that bear than a single male in the woods. Worse yet would be a group of males..

@wildernesswithamani1027

Ай бұрын

I heard something about that tik tok craziness. Another reason I've never wasted a second on there.

@CC_Marauder

Ай бұрын

💯

#61👍🏻📱🐻👀

@wildernesswithamani1027

Ай бұрын

Right on.