Family of Amie Adamson speaks out after hiker, 47, 'mauled to death by grizzly bear' in Yellowstone

Posted by Noelle Montes on Friday, May 3, 2024

A TEACHER who was mauled to death by a grizzly bear has been remembered as a brave adventurer by her heartbroken family.

Amie Adamson, 47, was a public school teacher for 20 years until she left the classroom to pursue her dreams of backpacking across the US.

Her body was discovered near a hiking trail on the western side of Yellowstone National Park along the Montana-Idaho border on Saturday.

Wildlife officials found tracks around her corpse and determined that she was mauled by a grizzly bear, which was traveling with a cub.

The attack happened a few hundred yards from a trailhead and private campground.

Her family confirmed on Facebook that she was the victim of the savage attack.

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Heartbroken friends and loved ones said that Adamson died doing what she loved.

"This is probably the hardest thing I've ever had to put on here," her mom Janet said.

"Yesterday morning we lost our beautiful, smart, talented daughter, Amie. Our firstborn."

The Derby, Kansas, native left behind some of her most memorable experiences in her book titled Walking Out: One Teacher's Reflections on Walking out of the Classroom to Walk America.

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"Every morning, she'd get up early, and she'd walk, hike or run," Janet said.

"Running through that beauty of Yellowstone - she was almost in heaven."

While officials deemed the mauling as her cause of death, they said the bear attack did not appear to be predatory.

Adamson died of blood loss from her injuries.

Hikers have been warned that they should know the difference between grizzly and black bears, and never feed the animals, per the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks.

The suspected bear attack comes just a month after a black bear mauled a man while he was drinking his morning coffee at a campsite. The victim, Steven Jackson, died following the attack.

Cops at the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office in Arizona described the mauling as “uncommon and unusual,” and said it was unprovoked.

The bear dragged Jackson, 66, around 75 feet down an embankment.

Neighbors frantically tried to stop the bear by blasting car horns and shouting.

Cops said the bear released its victim after a neighbor shot the animal with his rifle.

Darren Tucker of the Arizona Game and Fish Department said: “We have had zero reports of any kind of aggressive or threatening behavior from a bear anywhere around here.”

Sheriff David Rhodes said: “These are exceeding rare circumstances and we haven’t seen this before.”

A necropsy was conducted and it emerged that the bear was in “good condition” and wasn’t starving.

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The U.S. Sun reported in January how a woman and a child were killed after being savaged by a polar bear in a remote village in Alaska.

And Yellowstone also saw a horrific bison attack that left a woman with serious injuries after being gored.

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