A skier in Colorado was a close call last weekend.
A video taken by an employee in the Keystone Ski Resort in Keystone, Colorado, shows skier Brian O'Neal who comes along the slopes while a black bear appears from nowhere and runs in his direction.
Fortunately, the skier succeeded in preventing a closer meeting and the bear disappeared in a forest nearby.
“Suddenly from the right side of my eye, side vision, it was as if:” Oh Rotooi, something comes here, “O'Neal told Summit Daily News.” Usually you see Moose above, but I have never seen a bear. “
In an interview with StoryFul, the resort employee said that he and some friends had gone to the bear after they had heard from people who had meetings with the animal.
“We found the bear while he walked through the trees of connecting runs,” said Nathan Lynch. “So I and my friends went to the run where the bear was on my way and waited until he got up. When he did, I luckily had my camera out.”
Watch the video here
O'Neal told Summit Daily News that the incident took place on his first ski run of the day.
“It happened so quickly,” said O'Neal. “I just didn't try to meet.”
It was the last day before skiing in the resort for the season, the outlet reported.
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