Priest Lake area bear attack injures 60YO woman, 2 dogs
A 60-year-old woman hiking with her dogs was seriously injured in a bear attack near the Priest Lake visitor center on Tuesday morning.
The woman was hiking just after 9 a.m. on the Chipmunk Rapids trail when she saw a black bear, Idaho Department of Fish and Game spokesman Phil Cooper said.
The bear first attacked her dogs, then knocked her down, biting and scratching her several times.
The woman was able to get her phone out and call family in the area. Her brother and niece came to help, Cooper said.
“By the time they got there the bear was still there,” he said. The relatives were able to scare the bear away and take the woman to the trailhead near the U.S. Forest Service Visitor’s Center on the southwest side of the lake/Rachel Alexander, SR. More here.
