I think a large group of wildlife biologists thought that it was a grizzly. Whats weird though, is that a hiker took a picture of a similar looking bear in the same general area a couple of months previous to that. The WDFW looked at the photograph, and declared it to be a black bear. So the jury is still out.
All this was chronicled in at NWHikers, where all that really happened was that a Federal Biologist coined the term "ego vomit".
http://bearinsider.com/forums/showthread.php?44731-Hope-Solo-vs-Alex-Morgan