Meet the real-life Revenant

October 04, 2016 10:22

What should you do after you've been attacked by a bear -- twice? Put it on Facebook, of course.

That's what Todd Orr did over the weekend, after he was attacked by a grizzly bear in Madison County, Montana, not once but twice. Orr was on an early morning hike on a trail Saturday, scouting for elk. He had just stepped into an open meadow when he was spotted by a bear with cubs on the other end of the meadow.

"I yelled a number of times so she knew I was human and would hopefully turn back. No such luck," he wrote on his Facebook post. "Within a couple seconds, she was nearly on me. I gave her a full charge of bear spray at about 25 feet. Her momentum carried her right through the orange mist and on me." Read more

Image: Todd Orr suffered several bite marks on his arm and face. This was the least bloody of the images he posted on Facebook.

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