By Craig Medred
The News Tribune
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — When Alaska endurance cyclist Peter Basinger rode past the mountain bike dumped in the bushes along a Far North Bicentennial Park trail early Sunday morning, the thought of a horrific bear attack never even crossed his mind. He remembers thinking only that someone must have paused to dart into the woods for a bathroom stop.
Then he came upon a person sitting in the middle of the Rover’s Run trail.
“They just turned around and said, ‘Bear,’ ” Basinger said Monday.
Full story: Mauling took place in forest at 1:30 am