I used google translator and apparently "Go away!" in English actually means "Come and get it, dinner is served!" in Grizzly- maybe a good thing they didn't actually hear you.

Stan, you seem to be testing fate. It only takes one. Enjoy your video s

This is a really great example of how NOT to respond to bears. A little "go away" can easily peak a bears curiosity drawing them in your direction. I've had to "stand down" bears on 3 separate occasions during my backpacking journey and I've learned that you really need to put some base in your voice, stand your ground, and make it sound like you've emerged from the pit of hell. Otherwise you just sound like a weak, wounded meal.

One thing I learned in my 50 years of hiking the High Sierras is that bears and mountain lions have no natural predators. At that distance I leave them alone but keep an eye on them. Only when they get within 50 yards I turn into a wild man thrashing, yelling, and chasing them. They run every time because nothings ever chased them before. Never had a bear or cat turn back.

A grizzly 10 yards away !! Holy smoke. I was fly fishing in the middle of a pretty fast moving river up to my waist so I had very slow mobility when two moose walked out of the brush and into the river down stream from me about 15 yards away and I about died from fright. It took me a very long time to inch myself upstream where I finally saw an opening to get out. Can’t imagine how frightened you must have been. Stay safe.

My mood would have been terror. They are incredibly fast for their size, and of course very powerful. Considering how many Grizzlies were around, you were very calm.

Thank you for taking us along Mr.Mills

Stupidity has no bounds, and now thanks to the internet, it has no limits

How exciting and thrilling to see grizzlies and even more so to be within their presence! Excellent! 🤗

Wow Stan, this video is great although scary! While they are unpredictable, when they are in their element and food for them abounds in a good year, the grizzlies have no interest in us. I know there’s more to it than that, but everything scales from that fact. I would love to have the opportunity you have to hike these trails. Thanks for the videos, I can at least live through them!

I love your videos and your calm manner around bears. It is a relief to learn that you aren't impervious to fear!

You sir are so brave to be out in the open with Grizzlies. They scare the heck outta me. I love your videos, always so calm and beautiful scenery. Thank you for sharing your adventures.

Great video but definitely scary experience. Glad it went well

It is times like this when you wish you had brought the Ghostbusters backpack sprayer full of bear spray and the bungy cord attached to the follow-me sky hook.

I agree with you Stan, you shouldn't have yelled at the Grizzlies! Wow, they are stunning animals!! 🤗 I still like your camera, very nice close - ups my friend, very nice video too, thank you sincerely for sharing your videos and for all the work that you put in so we can see them on KZfaq, I very much appreciate that!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

The Lord Also gives you a Brain, Knowledge, Common Sense and sometimes a WARNING.

Nice video of you and the grizzlies just enjoying and not bothering each other. I appreciate the fact that you are one of the human beings that can look at grizzlies, and your first thoughts are not about killing them, you would rather respect their lives they have been given and enjoy their wild beauty, and I respect you and thank you for that. Stay well, Stay safe🐾🐾🙏

The bears is head of the game, you're trespassing in their world. They smell and saw you long before you saw them.

I'm a huge fan of Stan for being so brave to bring us this content. One of the greatest places on Earth. Wish I was there right now

At least you let them know you were Human and in the area,amazing hike,Stan the man really is the best

I will never go to bear country without a tucked magnum 44 and bear spray.

Beautiful animals. Scent is their primary sense for both predation and danger. Being upslope during the heat of the day they likely didn't Scent you unless it was later afternoon with downdrafts dropping down into valleys and drainage.

My heart was racing just watching this video. 😮

10 yards ?!!!... damned close !!! Thx.

Well…we can definitely see how the snow drift responded….1:40 (Kidding - I would have been paralyzed and probably would have dropped the camera altogether) Very hard to tell distances here - seems like the yelled-at bears were plenty far away relative to other encounters…

So I am probably a minority of one. But the first art video you did started with wolves. A profile. Then it filled in. This one. It stated with sheep. BOTH times I immediately reacted to the first shot. The one with all that negative white space. I love that. Love it. Yo are so talented. Anyway. Once we get this house a bit further. I’ll order a print. And I am thrilled to be able to do so. We are unpacking boxes this week. Have been living in a garage/ back room for 10 months. So as I fill things out and find the new design set up. I’ll be in touch. Also. Lotta bears. Long way from a road. Angels indeed. Keep warm. Happy thanksgiving. America holds on to democracy instead of diving off a cliff.

That chocolate bear is a pretty big bruin! Beautiful bear

Stan the grizzly whisperer... 🥴 Well done, the grizzly respected you as a peacful human. Some day you are a part of the bear family. 👍 .

Relying on a fake Lord and tempting fate will not end well one day.

These bears watch Stan on KZfaq so he’s respected in the bear community😉

Thanks for sharing this... This summer, on a turned road, while walking,... a black bear was walking towards me. I crossed on the otherside of the road, hehe... I'm sure there is a joke there somewhere... Why did the human cross the road? Hehe...🐻

The world is getting so scary, so happy and heart warming to see another u tuber acknowledge God, the God of the Bible : )

Awesome, terrifying and memorable.👍😎🇨🇦🐻🐻🐻🐻

Haven’t seen so many bears , must be early morning and looking for food..

There ain't no god that's gonna keep you from dying.

Not sure why so many in such close proximity. It seems like breeding season as they were following each other around. Might be June.

Hi Stan. I love your videos and all your wisdom and knowledge. One question: what where the bears doing? It seems they were intent and not bothered by your presence, perhaps focused on some objective. But what were they doing? Looking for some kind of food?

That’s awesome. Was that after this recent snow or a video from the past? Definitely sketchy but I think us grizzly adventures like the sketch or we wouldn’t do it That’s looks like spring melt or was that a wk ago ish

Can you tell us how long ago you had this encounter?

Oh my, Stan!

When will we get to hear your testimony?

Yes, that's the best strategy: rely on Daddy In The Sky to protect you.

Wow that’s amazing you saw all those bears on that hike . Thank the good lord for his protection . Amen on standing in faith for all gods promises are yes an amen . Yes lord we believe . What a nice day in Yellowstone great memories , pretty exciting for you to remember . Thank you nice to see those grizzlies!!!

I would bet they knew you were in the area before you knew they were there. During my life I have had the pleasure of watching animals when they don't know you are there. There posture changes ( or they vanish ) when they know someone is coming before the person knows they are there.

Talk about some healthy looking bears ! wow

You're a crazy man Stan

I suspect the same prayer a bear makes....

Amen !

The best advice can be found in the book "Hiking With Grizzlies" by Tim Rubbert. You don't want to show fear around a large predator. If you're even a little afraid, you're showing fear. Read the book. There's no reason to be fearful in the vast majority of bear encounters, including this one. Grizzlies don't hang out together except when there's lots of food around. In the Two Medicine Valley in Glacier National Park, when moths are hatching, I've seen 25+ grizzlies in close proximity. Other people have seen upwards of 50. They're so busy eating that they could care less about you as long as you aren't surprising them. Just talk in your lowest voice and they'll know you're there. Enjoy the encounter.

Be safe my friend!

Stan will you please be extra careful, hope you carry protection. I DO NOT want to hear about you on the news!

Amen

Jeez that place is crawling with bears!

Thanks for the video and sharing your experience. Sure hope you aren't bucking to be the next "Grizzly Man"...... things didn't end so well for him (nor his poor, supposed girlfriend).

I had a black bear by my Jeep at home. I did not know he was there and went around the back of my Jeep to put out garbage. I stood there, then tried to speak gently to him. Literally 3 feet away. He hissed, did a small fake lunge to scare me and ran off in front of my Jeep. I of course ran back behind my Jeep and omg met him on the other side. Face to face again! Knowing NEVER run, I ran without thinking as fast as I could. In a situation you can know all the rules. Bear Spray was in my Jeep for hiking. Did not have it on me to put garbage out. Luckily it was a younger bear and he took off the other direction. We were both safe. The last thing I would ever want to do is get a bear killed.

How close were you to the first group of bears?

Got bears? If you are ever in a bear attack, protect your eyes and the hand you draw with. In another YT hiking video by someone else, a grizzly did not react until they yelled to it. Then it started to charge. But really, bears don't speak English. I think it just makes the person speaking feel a tiny bit better. Recently, I was checking my game cameras and a big black bear was in front of one of the cameras minutes before I got there. I wish I would have seen it. I was busy watching for rutting bucks. It's a big ole goofy looking bear that has been coming here for at least 5 years. It's big enough to flip a decent sized dumpster over.

You be careful around those bears.

I used to have a reoccuring dream about being chased by bears, after i read an article about a fisherman that survived a bear attack because he walked where the bears kill was located. He ran into the river and the bear chased him into the water and he killed it with his fillet knife in the jugular.

Grizzlies are everywhere in Yellowstone, so when people go hiking why is it a surprise to see one or 5? And since we all know they're there, why do people go hiking in there? I don't get it.

Springtime, mating season

Ahh, when you wish for a .375 H&H with a 300 grain cartridge in the chamber and three more in the magazine.

Great video! So close to the one - wow! Good info on safety!

The prudent man sees trouble coming from a distance and hides himself but a fool allows himself to blunder into trouble & suffers the consequences. (My own paraphrase of Proverbs 22:3)

He also sends the bears out after hibernation to clean up what didn’t make it through the winter :-)

Are you wearing camouflage? How do they not get you

Bears are wild animal and can be predictable until they are not. Best to be prepared to defend yourself if charged.

Are you still selling your art?

They seemed fixated on each other. Could it be mating season. Looks like it was late spring/early summer when this was filmed.

Yes thank the Lord , He was protecting you ! And give Him thanks always for protection ! Take care , love your videos !

You're in their yard. You go away. I would've yelled too, though. :)

Is it possible the darker bear was a female and there were cubs nearby, the lighter bear being a male? Seems there was some sort of interaction going on between them, which fortunately may have kept them distracted from approaching you?

Good one all around.

Should have kept quiet and backed out of there.

good thing it wasn't springtime, they look pretty plump for Winter :)

I yelled to get big Grizz away from me , he was approaching fast and I didn't want to kill a bear. I ended up shooting him point blank with shotgun. It took 3 slugs to head to drop him 3 feet away from me. My yelling allmost got me killed.

Don't git et, stan! :D

Anything a grizzly could take as a challenge. If they wanted to eat you, they would have been sneakier. In the winter animals are hungrier. My 2 cents.

Never even heard of bears so tight together. You might have used the wrong soap Stan...

If you're shaking, the bears must be much closer than they appear in the video.

I enjoy your videos. I hope I don’t read about you in the newspaper

You can be lucky a lot of times......you only need to be unlucky just once with a grizzly.

No sir, The Lord told me NOT to go out into grizzly country! He told you too but you don't listen! Keep it up and oneday you'll meet The Lord by way of a grizzly!

you should work for national geographic documenting bears lol

reguardless what you see on media all the time grizzlys are not ravenous man eaters most the time they just ignore you unless they get curious even then alot of times they will get close enough to see what you are then typically just turn and walk off each bear though is diffrent

👍👍👍🦅😎🇺🇸

It is a 50/50 chance, you got lucky.

omg, that is super scary. If I was there I would think one of two scenarios: (1) a mother with a kid and a lone male chasing the female to mate and probably chase away the kid, or (2) a boyfriend and girlfriend together and a larger male approaching to steal the girlfriend. Both I would never want to be close to and I absolutely agree: dont make myself known and a nuisance to them.

What happens happens - My camera woud have shook too 👍😊

If he ate you, you would say, the lord sent me there to feed them. The lord doesn't work that way, do you think he is stopping bears from attacking, you got lucky. The lord helps thee who themselves. Get it?

My man you have nothing to worry about long as you keep filming with that 📷 your good the second you stop doing that & put that 📷 away your in trouble...Keep filming.

What's the grizzly population in Yellowstone these days?

Hi Stan ! Tremendous gratitude for Divine protection of you then, and always ! I get the impression this might be old footage, given you say "now days you use a quiet, calm voice" (instead of the yelling).

How many times you can tempt fate? Stuck in a snowbank, grizzly within 10 yards🤔 Perhaps many have asked? Do you carry? Weapon, bear spray? Hiking alone…I am no expert… I hope you stay safe and well!

@3:45, that’s what Timothy Treadwell said too…

Amen! Thank You for your protection of Stan!

Glad you are well Stan. Angels will watch over us if we let them. Blessings all.

They were 500 yards away. They couldnt see or hear you lmao

😱Check the video in frames of the tree areas. Can I have an email address to send the sighting I had of Sasquatch in this video???

Stupid is stupid does.