I agree I think we all agree he should have waited it out.
I can tell unequivocally its not a very good feeling coming across a moose on a narrow trail in the middle of nowhere.
It’s happened to me twice snowmobiling on the Gunflint Trail and your heart just stops. First time I basically just sat there luckily we were quite a ways away, didn’t really know what to do.
So I can see someone panicking and trying to scare it off the trail like that even though it turned out to be the wrong move.
also the moose is not going to move off the packed trail and lose control as you saw when went into the deep snow briefly.
Again I think lawnenforcement or DNR are going to see it as yes it was avoidable and mistakes were made but there is really no law broken here.