The claim: Bear took two-hour trip on ski lift in Vail, Colo.
“This was on the news. A full-grown brown bear is safe after a nearly two-hour ride on a chair-lift at a ski resort near Vail, Colorado!
That s the beginning of a Facebook post that over 31,000 users have shared since it was posted on June 18, which captions a photo showing a faint silhouette of what appears to be a bear on a ski-lift.
The creator of the post, Mike Roman, claims the bear activated the ski-lift and boarded a chair on its own a remarkable feat for an animal without opposable thumbs. USA TODAY reached out to Roman for comment.