

A Michigan woman posted a photo she took of Teddy on the day it was lost, saying it was the only bear she saw in the park. People responded with well wishes and offers of replacement bears. But there are many more adventures to be had!” In June, Addie Pascal posted a plea on Facebook for help finding Teddy, saying: “He’s been by her side for so many milestones. Teddy had a busy spring and summer, watching wolves howl at each other and working “bear jams,” which are traffic jams caused by bears being near the road, Mazzarisi said. “It was a perfect little mascot” and conversation piece, Mazzarisi said. Mary and when Mazzarisi returned to work in April he “immediately put him on the dash of my patrol truck.” Teddy “hibernated” in Mazzarisi’s cabin in St. He was unaware the stuffed animal had been reported lost, but for some reason couldn’t bring himself to dump it in the trash. “Typically, items that aren’t worth much monetarily get thrown out,” Mazzarisi said. It wasn’t too long before Ranger Tom Mazzarisi, a bear specialist in Glacier, spotted the stuffed bear, soaking wet and sitting in melting snow near the Hidden Lake Trail while he and two others were doing some end-of-season work. In this photo provided by Nona Windham, Naomi Pascal's teddy bear sits on a rock near the Hidden Lake Trail in Glacier National Park, Montana, Oct. She made a report to park officials, hoping someone might turn in the bear to a lost-and-found. It snowed overnight, closing the higher elevations of the park for the season and preventing Hayden from returning to search for Teddy. They were almost back to Hayden’s home in Bigfork that night when they realized they didn’t have Teddy.

While Pascal and a friend of his went on a hike in Glacier National Park, family friend Terri Hayden watched the kids. When Pascal took his kids to Montana in October 2020, Teddy was once again along for the adventure. She took Teddy with her on family trips to Ethiopia, Rwanda, Croatia and Greece. Teddy was the first gift Ben and Addie Pascal sent to Naomi before she was adopted in 2016. It made ’em feel like there is good in the world, which I believe there is.” “It was just a story of hope and kindness and people just working together,” Pascal said. The bear’s return, which has earned 12,000 likes on the Glacier National Park Facebook page, is a beautiful story that resonates, said Ben Pascal, Naomi’s dad and the senior pastor at the Presbyterian Church of Jackson Hole, a popular ski town south of Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. Thanks to a social media plea, the sharp eyes and soft heart of a park ranger and the closure of a hiking trail because of grizzly bear activity on the same day a family friend visited the park, the teddy bear is back in the arms of 6-year-old Naomi Pascal in Jackson, Wyoming. Her parents and family friends still held onto a glimmer of hope.

She took Teddy with her on family trips to Ethiopia, Rwanda, Croatia and Greece.A little girl who lost a special teddy bear she’d had since being adopted from an Ethiopian orphanage thought it was gone forever when she forgot it along a trail in Glacier National Park last year. It made ’em feel like there is good in the world, which I believe there is.” Naomi Pascal, with her father Ben and Teddy at an orphanage in Ethiopia in June 2016.
