The grizzly bear that attacked Jo Ann Staples inside her tent at a remote camping spot in the Brooks Range on Thursday morning hit her “like a ton of bricks,” the 61-year-old Kentucky woman said.
“I was just sitting in my tent on the sleeping bag and packing my pack,” Staples said from her hospital bed at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital on Friday, a day after the violent attack that left her with what she described as a “mangled” right arm and an ear that doctors “put back together.”
“I didn’t hear anything,” she said. “It was like a ton of bricks coming in on me.”
“It tried to drag me out of the tent,” Staples said. “When (the bear) started dragging me, I started screaming for Anne and the other ladies.”
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