If you know anything about the protective maternal instincts mother moose often exhibit towards their offspring, you’ll understand how sketchy this chance encounter by a group of packrafters outside Anchorage, Alaska actually was. Thankfully after momma moose split the rafters, she didn’t detect a threat as a her calf lagged behind. I would not want to be an inflatable in the same proximity as a pissed off moose.Â

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