A Wyoming elk hunter said things likely would have ended badly for her if she had been wearing her usual lace-up hunting boots when she was charged by a grizzly in the Beartooth Mountains.

As it was, Celia Easton was wearing her pull-on muck boots on Oct. 15, because it was rainy and wet that day. So, when the grizzly bit into her boot and started pulling, it ended up pulling the boot off her foot instead of dragging her away to become dinner.

The grizzly, a sow (female) with a cub, turned and fled when that happened, Easton told Cowboy State Daily.

“The boot came off, my foot came free, and that bear just swapped ends and ran,” Easton said.

“I’m not sure why she ran. I don’t know if it startled her. I don’t know if the boot snapped back when it popped off my foot and hit her in the fa

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