Eats a black bear, survives a train hit and father to 70% of cubs in the area... lol He is the Boss indeed.

He survived being hit by a train. The train had to be put down.

Definitely one of the strongest bloodlines, fathered over 70% of his area and pushing over 20yrs old. Boss is definitely a beauty and looks healthy enough for at least another five yrs. ❤️❤️❤️🐻❤️❤️❤️

Boss is THE bear. Respect to this incredible and majestic fluff-ball. 🐻

Dude's a legend... some say he also trained Chuck Norris back in the day.

Legends say when you get within a radius, boss music starts playing.

Had the good fortune of seeing the Boss, just past the Banff train station. Kudos to Parcs Canada, whose Rangers kept the twit tourists from getting to close!

Thank you for sharing images of the Boss worldwide. I feel lucky to get to witness this because of your photography!

Your photography is as admirable as the respect you extend to this bear. There is an especially magnificent full shot of the The Boss on the wall behind you. I truly hope there is a place the public can view many of your works.

Make those pics into t-shirts and send the proceeds to protecting wildlife management of Grizzly bears and habitats. Plus put a write up on the back of the shirt why he is the Boss of Banff.

One summer he was spotted out back from where I live in Banff, sitting in a field where they were playing Rugby not too far away. A true Living Legend

This photographer has obviously taken beautiful photos and respects nature as it should be.

He's beautiful I hope he has many more years to live a safe and healthy life.

You've lived a long good life old man.

He's healthy and beautiful He has a strong blood line for sure. Love the phot of him looking at the camera

Jason is an incredible photographer, and The Boss is a magnificent beast!

What a fabulous treat! Excellent work! Very respectful.

Gorgeous bear! And totally in his element.

My hubby my little dog and I all came face to face with with him once and we froze and he couldn’t be less concerned about us! But pretty sure he just taken out 2 brown bears the week before 😳

What’s crazy is he most likely fought his kids 70% are his kids and he probably has fought at least 2% of them, crazy

Thank you to the nature photographer, I can see the pretty face of this legendary bear. ❤

A majestic and beautiful animal.

I bet he's smart enough to avoid another train hit too. Growing up we had a German shepherd that survived being hit by a car and he never went near the road again.

What a gorgeous, ginormous bear. I’m glad he’s well loved.

Fathered 70% of the cubs. The Boss is living a great life. 🐻

His Majesty🐻😍 respects! Awesome creature. 👏👍❤️

What a beautiful creature of nature... and the mutual respect between man and bear is (once again) so important. To simply view him (and take photos) is such a treat.

Excellent photos n video. Great work!

He’s getting up there in age. Hopefully he can live more years to come. The boss of bow-valley and beyond.

His eyes in that picture say it all.

Stunning photographs of a gorgeous bear

What a majestic creature!

What a Majestic animal Beautiful photos....

Bet he got shivers seeing such beauty

He has been spotted in Yoho, Banff, and Jasper parks many times.

I am always amazed how photographers take photos and it looks alive.

He's wonderful ❤️

Dominant male boars (bears, not pigs!) have a certain swagger to them, much like big elephant bulls do. What great photos of a legendary bear! He is a beauty. 😍

What a gorgeous beast. ❤💕

He's gorgeous , I hope I'll live still few years more !!

Beautiful creature and awesome pictures!

What an amazing creature. God I love bears. Such presence.

Respect to The Boss. Absolute legend!

Gorgeous animal 🐻

The close up picture of b his face is so beautiful!! He's perfect... through my device. 😅

Amazing photos!

Beautiful animal!

The Boss is probably the most appropriate name for his reputation.

I've had run ins with bears in the forest but if I bumped into one of that size I'd likely faint. Lol

Beautiful Bear he is indeed The Boss!

That boy is massive!!

hey boss- you dont know about other countries but im in australia and i think your awesome. From my daughter

Looks like someone found their spirit animal~ Beautiful :) ~~~~~>💓°•○☆💕

Knowing that the cameraman never dies I followed the bear around the wilderness and set up my tripod. 😅

That teddy bear looks surreal!

Always comfortable to know I will be treated as a criminal for having a tool to defend myself against such threats

And people think a Siberian Tiger can even have a snowball chance of beating this type of bear, that's beyond hilarious, that's like a Beetle trying to pull a car

The cover picture is Grazer, famous Katmai park (Alaska) mama bear

We'd go to the "cafeteria wet dump" on Windfall, Alberta in the evening to watch the bears feed. Then about sunset all the bears would leave, usually more than fifty. THEN the Big Boy would walk in and have the place to himself. He was at least 40% larger than the SECOND largest bear. Then we kids would play in the dry dump for the pipeline, light fires, dump stuff, the kinds of things you'd get arrested for in the big city. Good time, Windfall.

Even if he’s in his car, unless he’s already rolling there’s no safety inside if the Boss wants him!! 😳😳

I hope he lives many more years ❤

From the "Safety" of his own car. He's lucky The Boss allowed this photoshoot to happen 🤣

Beautiful!! And remember to use your telephoto lens kiddies, you don't want to get to close, lol

U can tell he tells everyone about his degree in every interaction he has

Wow what a beautiful bear 🐻. Why do they look so cute and cuddly when they’re dangerous?

That is an amazing photograph!

Can you feel my heart starts playing 😂

I'm like 95% certain I saw this bear once about 9ish years ago when I lived in Banff. I was out on a hike a bit west of town, and I was watching a herd of caribou in a meadow a bit below me, probably about 600m or so away. Suddenly a few of them poked their heads up on a swivel for a few seconds then bolted, causing the whole herd to take off. About a minute later this hulking beast of a bear walked out from the taller grass near the treeline across the meadow and started heading towards a small pond there. This would have been in the first week of October, so I imagine he was bulking up before his hibernation, but boy was I glad to be upwind of him. I didn't stick around long - didn't have a camera that could get a shot from that distance and I didn't want to risk being bear food lol, back to town I went.

The Boss is literally me

"From the safety of his car"? There are lots of videos in YT of bears ripping the doors off of cars just to get a bag of potato chips.

Absolutely Magnificent Wild Child! God Bless Him!

The Boss is a beautiful bear for sure.

So beautiful ! The boss . So big and healthy

That final head close up with the raised left eyebrow and serious eyes is just ridiculous in terms of expression. I hope it’s not photoshopped.

What a massive & magnificent beast❣

🤩 stunning boss!

He enjoys grain on tracks. He even enjoys eating it while crews work near him he's a cool Cat

Little does this bear know of his esteem on the internet

So The Boss is a Bear spirit.

Truly majestic

Beautiful animal! He is huge!!!

I thought they were hibernating in winter. Beautiful animal

"From the safety of his car".....dang straight!

Look at that big baby! 😀🧡🌿

Wow the Boss is sooooo beautiful. ❤️

Unfortunately, the train did not survive the hit on the Boss. It had to be laid to rest the same day 🙂

Bear is the most psychic animal anyone can encounter, they are literally like madman, there are incidents where male bear kidnap women and rape. They can get angry anytime and kill you, you can't escape from them, they'll catch you from anywhere.

Truly amazing.

The bear got that dawg in him

He’s not a boss he’s a player.

He’s the ‘boss’ until a younger, more powerful grizzly defeats or kills him. We just so love to anthropomorphize these killing machines.

What a badass bear.

Dude took on a train....yeah he's The Boss.

Majestic

That's the first Global News cast I've been able to completely watch for years without walking away and disgust of something

This is special ! The photos are fantastic ! 😲70% we need to change his name to Big Daddy❤ with love of course!

He wasn't hit by a train. The train was hit by him.

He’s Beautiful 🤩

Beautiful 🐻❤

My right of passage you might say was being left for weeks tending the pack string on my step fathers guide hunting outfit in NE BC between hunts! The year I was 17 several hunts in succession were canceled not an issue for the business as the hunts are prepaid the cooks wranglers and guides are not! After a couple of weeks in one of the heaviest populate grizzly territories in Canada my fly camp up against the end of a steep hill that the horses and mules were hobbled below they inevitably found away around or through and headed the 30 plus miles to a pasture we kept for them! I did chase for a few days and were the trail intercepted a logging road a managed to flag a hunter and ask him to rely the message I had lost the string of animals! Back at camp the next morning I was greeted by a young grizzly sat across the cut line from me while I prepares and ate breakfast! That became a bit of a ritual over the next week interacting with that bear. My step father eventually showed up in a brand new Ford bronco the level of hell I expected wasn't as severe as I thought until my new friend seemed to take objection to my dressing down and appeared crossed the cut line and headed right for that shiny new bronco! My step father starts by asking quietly at first for my saddle gun then I was using a 308 browning lever action. Eventually I retrieved it from under my bed roll San the clip! The grizzly must of been itchy for he had made a good bit of work on most every corner of that bronco special attention given the mirrors! The bellowing from my stepfather was picking up pretty good when I handed him my clip I reminded him we had hunters coming that paid to hunt grizzly how would he explain killing one that had little fear of humans an easy hunt! He did let loose a few rounds over the grizzlies head that bear just turned its head towards us as it slowly padded away! We never did successfully hunt that bear even though I was brought out on the guide camp when that bear was targeted the hunters and guides would go out and I would spend most of the day with the bear in camp but mostly only if I was alone all but once members of the old TV program WRK in Cincinnati were coming hunting the location of that camp was close to my fly tent were i first encountered this grizzly, with the gear being unloaded and everyone just settling in along comes the grizzly right into the center of camp he stood up let out a small growl and smacked his Jaws, the whole of group had dove into the wall tents no one at that point had unpacked a gun! Shortly after they started logging back in that stretch of forest and thar grizzly was run over by a logging truck! Many years later my stepfather is dying from pancreatic cancer a last trip to a favorite hunting spot thus one had a hunting cabin on it the territory had changed hands many times and as such the territory is only open to residents of BC now due some malfeasance with later owners and characters! My stepfather was given special use of two cabins this particular one was of a special memory of good times and good hunts to which we went for a last pack trip! The late afternoon with oil and gas industry making the trek much closer we arrived at the cabin noticing flagging ribbon that indicated the area was soon to be logged. My stepfather took while taking inventory and setting about which tasks needed to be done the horses and mules were tied to the hitching post still when a very old and grizzled grizzly sat in the meadow outside the cabin lifting almost waving his arm seemingly greeting us but more my stepfather! My stepfather and this bear seemed to have a bond when the bear finally got up and lumbered away my stepfather exclaimed that bear has to be in his 40's! He said to me my right of passage was left back in these woods running pack strings to remote farms and hunting when that bear and I much like you and your bear when you were 17 I can't believe he's still alive but in his shape I think this is his last year and it was as well my stepfather last year! That was in 2006 I haven't been back to the cabin since!