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Julia Tupy

VIDEO: NJ Hiker Dubbed 'Calm Queen' In Close Encounter With Bear VIDEO: NJ Hiker Dubbed 'Calm Queen' In Close Encounter With Bear
Video: NJ Hiker Dubbed 'Calm Queen' In Close Encounter With Bear A 25-year-old Monmouth County hiker has been dubbed the "Calm Queen" by internet users after a video of her slowly walking away from a black bear on a Sussex County hiking trail went viral. Julia Tupy of Eatontown was sitting on a lookout along "Stairway to Heaven" in Vernon when the bear came out of the woods, then went back in last Wednesday. Tupy and her three friends didn't think the animal would come out again. But moments later, Tupy looked up, and her friend Joe Kun, 24, also of Eatontown, looked stiff, she said. "I think we should move now," Kun said from behind the camera. Kun's …