Seattle Kraken mascot charged at by brown bear during video shoot in Alaska
Hayden and Buoy were on a fly-fishing outing in Katmai National Park when the bear approached them.
While fishing, Hayden and Buoy were accompanied by a guide, who spotted the bear. The guide had the crew wade through the shallow river.
As they were moving away, the bear, which had been moving closer to them, turned and charged through the water for a few paces before coming to a stop and turning away.
"I want to blame it on Buoy," Hayden said on the video afterward. "They were pretty interested in his look."
Brown bears commonly feast on salmon in the Brooks River in Katmai National Park, gobbling them as they leap upstream over Brooks Falls to spawn. The park, nearly 300 miles (485 km) southwest of Anchorage and inaccessible by road, is home to the annual "Fat Bear Week" contest celebrating the bears as they fatten up for the winter.
"Bears are everywhere at Brooks Falls and, like, this is their territory," said Kraken Partnership Marketing Director Melissa O'Brochta, who also recorded the encounter from shore. "They're also super used to seeing humans. So I wasn't scared."
Hayden and Buoy were in Alaska as part of an annual trip organized by the Bristol Bay Native Corporation in Anchorage, Alaska, with events that promote youth ice hockey. Alaska does not have its own NHL team; the closest teams are in Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia, which has the Vancouver Canucks.
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