{"id":1310773,"date":"2019-05-28T14:10:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T20:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=979513"},"modified":"2019-05-28T14:10:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T20:10:02","slug":"traps-set-near-aspen-for-aggressive-bear-that-bit-hiker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/traps-set-near-aspen-for-aggressive-bear-that-bit-hiker\/","title":{"rendered":"Traps set near Aspen for \u2018aggressive bear\u2019 that bit hiker"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/bear-attack-aspen-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Hunter Creek Valley trail closed near aspen after bear attack\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/bear-attack-aspen.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/bear-attack-aspen-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/bear-attack-aspen-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>A trail closure sign blocks the lower Hunter Creek Valley trail to hikers Monday afternoon after an unprovoked bear attack was reported earlier in the day. Crews with tracking dogs were dispatched to locate the suspect bear.<\/strong><br \/><em>Jeremy Wallace \/ The Aspen Times<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>State wildlife officials set two traps for a bear that bit a woman hiking Monday near the Hunter Creek Apartments.<\/p>\n<p>Kurtis Tesch, Colorado Parks and Wildlife officer for the Upper Roaring Fork Valley, said Tuesday he\u2019s monitoring the traps for the bear after hounds were unable to locate it Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re waiting to see what happens,\u201d he said Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The black bear \u00ad\u2014 which Tesch believes is a yearling or 2-year-old \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/bear-bites-hiker-on-hunter-creek-trail-near-aspen-woman-ok-officials-tracking-bruin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\">bit the woman about 9:15 a.m.<\/a>, he said. She suffered two puncture wounds to her thigh.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, who was in her mid-50s and visiting from Washington, was hiking on the Hunter Creek Trail with her husband when they saw the bear coming down the trail toward them. They stepped off the trail to give the bear room, and as it passed it bit her then ran off, Tesch said.<\/p>\n<p>The couple did not have a dog with them and was not yelling at the bear at the time of the attack, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, who asked authorities not to release her name, was composed after the attack \u2014 which occurred near Lone Pine Road \u2014 and was upset when informed that the bear would have to be killed, Tesch said.<\/p>\n<p>Aggressive animals who attack humans are automatically killed so others are not attacked, he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:jauslander@aspentimes.com\">jauslander@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/traps-set-near-aspen-for-aggressive-bear-that-bit-hiker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trail closure sign blocks the lower Hunter Creek Valley trail to hikers Monday afternoon after an unprovoked bear attack was reported earlier in the day. Crews with tracking dogs were dispatched to locate the suspect bear.Jeremy Wallace \/ The Aspen Times State wildlife officials set two traps for a bear that bit a woman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1310773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 05:02:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1310773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}