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Show 39 for identification to see viho I was. The bear must have gone through my pack, too, after she attacked me, because it was ripped to shreds. She'd taken a l l my dried apricots and the rest of the food I ' d brought. I guess the cubs helped her eat i t ." The tvio hikers who'd gone for help sped south until they savi a marked patrol car parked along the side of the road. Inside the car was Gary, one of the seasonal rangers viho vias viorking for Janey that summer. When the men told Gary that a g i r l had been hurt by a bear on the Heart Lake t r a i l , he radioed Janey at Grant Village - the call was also picked up by other rangers at South Entrance. Since Gary vias the ranger closest to the victim, Janey instructed him to speed to the accident scene viith f i r s t aid supplies. Janey and tvio other seasonal rangers l e f t immediately from Grant Village with a Stokes l i t t e r (a type of stretcher) and a l l the f i r s t - a id supplies they could carry. With siren wailing, they drove the five miles to the Heart Lake t r a i l head vihere they met rangers from South Entrance who had responded to the call for help. Janey l e f t one of her seasonals at the t r a i l head to monitor calls on the car radio - she and the others viould have only radio handsets, vihich are not as povierful for communication, Half a dozen of the hikers viho had found Marianna viere viaiting at the t r a i l head; Janey asked them to come viith her to help carry out the victim. With the Stokes l i t t & r and the f i r s t - a i d supplies, the rangers ran the mile to where Marianna lay. They found that Gary had arrived and had applied f i r s t aid. "He did such a good job," Janey says. "Without knowing vihat he vias going to find, because he didn't have any |