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Show 37 parked there, with a large group of people preparing to hike the same t r a i l . There were 27 hikers in the party, all from Texas. Marianna hurried to put on her hiking boots so that she could s t a r t out ahead of them. The t r a i l to Heart Lake is nine miles long; Marianna had walked the f i r s t mile vihen she came to a l i t t l e rise vihere the t r a i l narrovied. Because some lodgepole pines had fallen close to the t r a i l , Marianna walked with her eyes lowered to look out for obstacles. When she glanced up, she saw a mother grizzly and three small cubs on the other side of the r i s e , walking 100 feet ahead of her in the same direction. "I stopped and took off my pack," Marianna r e c a l l s , "to get out my camera. The mother grizzly started to sniff as if she smelled me. She turned around and sniffed and then she turned back, kind of like she wasn't sure vihere I vias, but she knevi that someone vias there. When she spotted me she started toviard me, making a r e a l ly loud noise like a roar. She was coming at me like a ten-ton t r a i n . I think I tried to climb aitree and then I started to run. I'm sure i t didn't take long at all for her to get to me. She picked meuup once and threvi me. She l i t e r a l ly picked me up off the ground and just threvi me like I vias a sack of garbage." Animal behaviorists believe that a mother bear with cubs insists on a certain amount of space vihen she t r a v e l s , as though she draws an invisible perimeter around her. If anyone comes through that perimeter, the grizzly considers her space violated and attacks. Marianna tried to play dead - i t ' s generally agreed that if a |