Real or Fake?

Lucky she didn't fall down.

Also lucky her other boot was already strapped in.

I'm thinking, there are a lot of people where didn't know how close they come to a tradegy.

I don't know much about bears in Japan, but I can tell you that in Montana USA if there is that much snow, the bears are still holed up in their hibernacula.

A deeper look would be warranted (if I really cared one way or the other), but I am inclined to say this is a pretty good fake.

This is a live video feed from Hakuba47, where the girl claims the event took place.

http://www.vill.hakuba.nagano.jp/livecam/livecamera.php?id=5

This post is only good for a day or so... But today, the varied video cameras show a ski area with nearly bare slopes. Doesn't really look like the ski area in the yewtoob piece, supposedly three days ago.

the girl is Aussie, everyone knows you can't trust them as far as you can throw them

Well, I won't guess if real or fake, but there are areas like Killington VT where the resort makes enough snow to keep a limited number of runs open into July. Most years Kiullington is open into the summer with one run open. That run in Japan looks like they do the same.

http://www.snopes.com/snowboarder-girl-chased-by-bear/

Fake.

SNOWBOARDER GIRL CHASED BY BEAR - Real or Fake .

That can't be, I saw it in the Internet,

Well, I saw the "proof" that it was fake on the Internet, so there.

Just take the damn snowsuit off.

bare for the bear?

I wasn't thinking of the bear's benefit.

OOPS.

Wrong thread.

To be continued in another thread.

I'm thinking that it is a movie behind the skier. Otherwise the videographer would have to be right in front of the skier. It's too smooth for that.

If the video was telephoto, the bear must have been very far away to appear so small. Telephoto compresses distance, making objects appear about the same size.

I'm thinking it's faked.

"Otherwise the videographer would have to be right in front of the skier."

No videographer, she's using a 'selfie stick.' If there HAD been a videographer skiing backwards to film her, the first sighting of the bear on film would have been followed by the camera dropping and the sounds of people running for their lives.

Well, I don't know Japanese bears, so they may be different, but I live in bear country here in the USA and 2 things immediately jump out at me to make me cry fake.

1. It is spring there as here, and when bears first come out of hibernation, they don't look much like bears - more like huge dogs. They use up hundreds of pounds of stored energy over the winter.

2. We don't see bears in the snow very often around here. That is at a high elevation. Mr./Mrs. bear is very hungry in the spring time - he/she should be at a much lower elevation where there is food - not up in the snow.

3. Can't comment on this particular species, but most bears I've been around prefer to avoid contact with humans - not look for it. They are very dangerous when surprised and can't flee or when cubs are involved.

Exception to the above - the polar bear. That is not a polar bear.

Didn't know they had Brown Bears in Japan.

Only on the northern island so Fake.