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Saved from the jaws of the grizzly
Bear attack survivor recounts one morning in October ARNE PETRYSHEN Cranbrook Daily Townsman
It’s been a long month for Cranbrook’s Wilf Lloyd. On October 12, near Fernie, Lloyd was rushed, knocked over, pinned down and mauled by a grizzly bear. Lloyd was out hunting elk at the time with his son-in-law Skeet Podrasky. Podrasky is credited with saving Lloyd by shooting the bear numerous times and killing it. Because of the close quarters, Lloyd also sustained a gunshot wound, but survived the attack, and
was able to be flown to hospital in Calgary. It’s going to be a long road to recovery for Wilf. After the attack he had five surgeries in just eight days. His wounds are now healing, but he’ll find out this week whether he will be ready in the next two to five months for a prosthetic knee. Wilf and Skeet recently sat down with Mike Turner, local videographer, for an interview. For the past few years, as part of a Thanksgiving tradition, Wilf and Skeet have gone out hunting near Fernie. The evening before of Oct. 11 they managed to bugle in an elk and shoot at it, but didn’t appear to hit it. They spent some time looking for blood on the trails but couldn’t
“The pain was intense and was like a burn. I look at the bear and now his eyes are focused on me. Again, I said to Skeet ‘shoot him, Skeet, shoot him!’ The bear’s growling and his face starts to come down and that’s when I jammed my right (arm) right down into his throat — he started to clamp down” Wilf Lloyd
find any. Just to be sure they marked the area and decided to come back in the morning. The next day they met to take another look. “We started zigzagging and looking at different trails and it was thick — there were trees and little creeks,” Wilf said. “It took us about half an hour or so through the buck brush. We walked all the way through the bush. There was a field on the other side — we got to the field and we were pretty confident that there was no elk.” But as they were walking back to the truck, Wilf spotted the skeletal remains of a whitetail deer. Wilf knelt down to check it See WILF, page 4
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