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Bellingham Parks & Recreation Travelogue: Surviving a Grizzly Bear Encounter

  • Whatcom Museum | Old City Hall 121 Prospect Street Bellingham, WA, 98225 United States (map)

$5 Suggested donation/Members free

Join Bellingham Parks & Recreation for a presentation with guest speaker Patrick McGinty in the Rotunda Room of Old City Hall. McGinty recounts his tale, “The grizzly bear was so close I could have touched its head.” Yikes! Come hear what happened next as the avid Bellingham adventurer presents, with pictures and videos, about his recent extraordinarily dangerous close encounter with a grizzly bear sow with two cubs in the Canadian Rockies, as well as other close encounters with bears.