California couple fights off aggressive black bear with hatchet and water bottle

A California couple sustained significant injuries from claw and bite wounds during the bear attack but are expected to make full recoveries.

In the early morning quiet of Mammoth Lakes, a Sierra Nevada mountain town where bears and humans have long shared an uneasy proximity, a couple found themselves in one of the rarest and most primal of confrontations — a direct, aggressive attack by a black bear that refused to yield. Armed with nothing more than a water bottle and a hatchet, they fought back, survived, and were left to reckon with both their wounds and the weight of what it means when the boundary between wild and domestic life collapses without warning. The bear, a seventeen-month-old animal behaving in ways that defied the

California couple fights off aggressive black bear with hatchet and water bottle

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