LETHBRIDGE --
Eric Macapus has been an avid hiker in Alberta and BC since 2010. He's enjoyed every hike he's ever done… until Saturday that is.
After a planned hike in Kananaskis Country was cancelled, he decided to summit Mount Crandell in Waterton alone.
However, when he was over halfway through the trek, Macapus gained some unwanted companions.
"When I was about three-point-five kilometers away from the true summit, I hear a growl in my back and was like, 'What is that?'," he said.
"When I turned my head back, boom, just 12 meters away from my back the grizzly momma and the cub were following me. The moment I saw them, I said, 'holy smoke, I will die.'"