Montana town of grizzly attack a popular stop for cyclists

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A tiny western Montana town where a grizzly bear pulled a woman from her tent and killed her welcomes visitors like her year-round. During the warmer months, visitors to Ovando include bicyclists traversing the scenic Great Divide Mountain Bike Route.

They come to Ovando to fish, hike, camp and float the river in the summer and to snowmobile, cross country ski or snow shoe in the winter.

The sheriff closed the informal campsites around town at least until Sunday and the town opened up a fire station and church for cyclists to sleep inside. The town already had an old jail that had been remodeled with some cots for campers, said Kathleen Loendoerfer, who owns the Blackfoot Angler fishing shop with her husband, Travis Thurmond.

“A lot of the towns on the route, small towns in the middle of the mountains, tend to be really welcoming to divide riders coming through,” Key said. “There’s a couple farms and ranches along the way that allow riders to come stay with them. It’s kind of a communal feeling to it. Everyone’s really welcoming.”

Lokan had been looking forward to the Montana bike trip for months, said Mary Flowers, another friend from Chico. Lokan had taken long-distance bike trips and on this one was accompanied by her sister and a friend, Flowers said. Lokan and two others were camping when a bear startled them at 3 a.m. Tuesday before wandering off, Montana wildlife officials said. The bicyclists removed food from their tents, stored it and went back to sleep, officials said.

 

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Ngl, the first sentence of your tease reads like the town is actively recruiting for the bear buffet.

That shit happens kinda frequently on the Appalchian Trail, too. Hey, that turf belongs to bears and snakes, kids.

Why are you trying to justify idiots trying to kill a bear for being a bear?! 🤦🏻‍♂️

AP: You need more punctuation in your sentences.

His house, his space! What did they expect?!

Every goddamned bear needs to be unicycle trained, and juggling, and being calendar cute and shit and earning their goddamned keep. Break their uppity bear attitudes, and remind them where they shit. And how we have bidets and shotguns and non-toothy blowjobs. Humans rule, bitch

'People visit area where bears tend to live.' Whoa

The more their habitat dwindles, the more we look like fillet mignon. 🤠🎸🎶🖖🌎

Stop invading animals habitats!

nice

Educate, don't persecute.

Those visitors won't be sleeping in tents for quite some time I'm sure

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