Close encounters of the ursine kind

It's that moment on the trail that we all dread -- face to face with a big boar grizzly.But these damsels in distress had nothing to fear because look who was between them and 500 pounds of Ursus Arctos Horriblis. It could have been a close encounter of a nasty kind, but instead Mr.Grizzly decided there was a better huckleberry patch over the hill. Or was he afraid of the group's peerless leader?

Fortunately, we'll never know and no one is more grateful for that than the group's leader who thanks the Good Lord for his luck and will go to sleep tonight thinking about ways to avoid another experience like this in the future.

A lesson learned.