Bear biologist and Host of Tooth and Claw Podcast, Wes Larson, was at Soda Butte Campground inside Montana’s Custer Gallatin National Forest where he planned to investigate the site of a fatal bear attack back in 2010 where a camper was pulled out his tent and eaten by a grizzly bear when he got quite a surprise:
On Tuesday I went to an empty campground in Montana because it was the location of a fatal grizzly attack we covered on Tooth and Claw (my podcast). I saw a moose in the campground and went to take a short video of it…it ended up being a better video than I expected pic.twitter.com/B0KFEpBvrd
— Wes Larson (@grizkidd) June 16, 2024
“I was near the campground this week so I decided to check it out late one evening. The campground was deserted and the gate was unlocked so I drove in. On the other side of the campground I saw the dark shape of a moose in the trees, so I moved closer to capture it with my camera. Turns out I wasn’t the only one watching the moose…
After the interaction was over and the unsuccessful bear grazed on clover in a field nearby, I checked the site number where the chase had just unfolded. It was Site 26, the very same location of the fatal mauling 14 years ago.” –Wes Larson