Minish was alone and about half mile from the road when the bear charged him, the report said.
“All of the sudden, I looked up, and about 30 feet away, there was this nice-sized brown bear,” Minish told CNN affiliate KTUU. “And it looked at me, and it came at me. And I thought, ‘Great.'”
Minish tried to take shelter behind some shrubs, but they didn’t provide any protection, he told KTUU. He fell backwards as the bear approached him and grabbed it’s lower jaw to try to keep it from biting him.
“Because if you grab a dog’s lower jaw, it can’t bite you,” he told KTUU. “So I got a hole punched…
