Alaska runner hospitalized after bear spray encounter on Anchorage trail

Runner hospitalized after bear attack; previous victim in July suffered non-life-threatening injuries from separate bear encounter in same area.

Twice within a single month, the boundary between Anchorage's urban trails and Alaska's wild interior has dissolved in a moment of sudden, dangerous contact. A woman running alone on the Wolverine Bowl trail this week deployed bear spray to drive off a brown bear, escaping with injuries that required hospitalization — the second such attack in the area since July. These encounters remind us that in a city built at the edge of wilderness, the assumption of safety on a familiar path is itself a kind of fiction, one that dense summer foliage is particularly good at sustaining until it is too late

Alaska runner hospitalized after bear spray encounter on Anchorage trail

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