Alaskan woman, mauled by bear, walks to truck and drives to hospital

By Steve Quinn JUNEAU Alaska (Reuters) - A 57-year-old Alaskan hiker survived after being mauled by a brown bear on a wilderness trail, walking more than a mile to her truck and driving to hospital after the attack, state police reported on Wednesday. Thea Thomas was hiking on Tuesday along the Heney Ridge Trail in Cordova, a remote and sparsely populated coastal fishing community southeast of Anchorage, near a stream in which salmon were spawning when two dogs she had with her ran ahead. She told the Alaska Dispatch News she was bitten about seven times, the worst to her back and inner thigh. "By the end, I was thinking, 'I could die here'." Thomas returned to her truck, some 1.5 miles away, after the attack, according to a report by Alaska State Troopers. via Health News Headlines - Yahoo News Read More Here..