‘Bear attack bad’: Harrowing final message from Alberta couple killed by grizzly
grizzly bear in the wilderness of Banff National Park says he knew something was terribly wrong as soon as he received a call with a message from their satellite device.Colin Inglis said his nephew, Doug Inglis, and Jenny Gusse, both 62, from Lethbridge, Alta., died in the bear attack on the weekend. Their seven-year-old border collie named Tris was also killed.The longtime couple, he said, was on a weeklong backpacking trip in the area and had been checking in daily with him and Gusse’s mom.Inglis received a text message from their Garmin inReach device at 4:52 p.m.
Friday saying they had been delayed but that everything was OK.Then a representative with the satellite device company reached out at 8:15 p.m.“I got an actual phone call from Garmin saying that the SOS had been activated and that somebody had actually entered into the inReach (a message) that said, ‘Bear attack bad,”’ he said Wednesday in an interview from Edmonton.“‘Bear attack bad’ means bad things. It means something is probably happening right then that is terrifying.”Parks Canada has said its dispatchers also received an alert around 8 p.m.
Friday from the inReach device about a bear attack west of Ya Ha Tinda Ranch, about 200 kilometres northwest of Calgary.The agency immediately sent its Wildlife Human Attack Response Team to the remote area by ground because weather conditions in the mountains prevented it from using a helicopter.The team arrived at about 1 a.m. Saturday and found the two people dead, the statement said.Parks Canada said the team, which is specially trained in firearms and wildlife attack site investigation and forensics, encountered a grizzly bear that displayed aggressive behaviour and charged toward them.It was killed and a
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