‘I’m not dying today:’ Teen who lost mom to grizzly has run-in with bear herself
CANMORE, Alta. — The daughter of an Alberta woman who died in a grizzly bear attack in 2005 says she now has a better sense of how her mom felt in the moments before she died thanks to her own run-in with a notorious bear.
Earlier this summer, Léa McCroy was out for a run near Canmore, a picturesque mountain town about 100 kilometres west of Calgary, when she heard a crashing sound in the woods.
“I see part of this grizzly bear, just standing there huffing and puffing,” the 17-year old recalled in an interview.
McCroy was told by officials it was likely Bear 148, a six-and-a-half year old female grizzly that was in the area at the time. The bear was relocated a week later to an area north of Jasper National Park after several other close calls with people in the Canmore area.