Tyler Johnson, 32, was hiking off-trail Saturday on the Kenai Peninsula in south-central Alaska on a hunting trip with his father when they encountered a brown bear.

Tyler and Chris Johnson on a father-son hunt in 2019. Photo by Tyler Johnson / Facebook Tyler Johnson/Facebook “I suspect the bear tried to paw me, which I don’t remember, but I think it hit my ...

Tyler Johnson, 32, was hiking off-trail Saturday on the Kenai Peninsula in south-central Alaska on a hunting trip with his father when they encountered a brown bear.