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BIGFORK - Animal expert Jack Hanna is certain bear spray will fend off a grizzly bear, because just this past Saturday while in Glacier National Park, he was faced with a mother and her two yearlings.

Hanna and his wife were hiking along a park trail near Grinnell Glacier when they rounded a bend and came face to face with a family of grizzly bears.

The bears started toward Hanna, his wife and three other nearby hikers, and that's when Hanna says one of the yearlings started charging.

Hanna recalls the event happening fast, but he also acted fast by unloading bear spray in the direction of the charging griz. He sprayed at about 30 feet, then again at about 20 feet, but it wasn't until the bear reached the group roughly 10 feet away, that it smelled the spray and turned the other direction.

Hanna says this is the first time he has ever been charged by a grizzly bear while out hiking in the wild and it shook him up.

Hanna tells us he is at his home in Bigfork filming a commercial and plans to visit Glacier National Park again in the coming days.