West Linn man rescues woman from bear in Yellowstone Park

helped the woman escape from the approaching bear Friday at a remote lake in the park. . ... was in a kayak with his young son and his father-in-law ... saw hiker ... coming down toward the lake with the large bear following her"We just thought, 'We've got to save this woman's life,' but then on the other hand I had my son in the kayak,so we were like, 'When do we go get her?' And when the bear got too close we decided we had to take some action.... We were afraid the bear was gonna come after us--and it was about 20 or 30 feet away--and we just real calmly stroked the kayak back," The ordeal played out before a CNN camera, as a news crew was interviewing a park ranger about the deadly grizzly attack days before.