Yellowstone National or bust
plane tickets, rental cars and hotel rooms are booked..
The six of us fly into Bozeman early June then four days at Old Faithful Inn, then Jackson Hole for a few days then all the way over to Mt Rushmore for a few days then we amble our way back to Bozeman
really looking forward to twelve days of the beautiful west.
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Saw a video on -tube, bison was tossing folks like rag dolls.
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Bison Vs Bikers
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Sometimes you get close to them when you don't mean to. Like when you round a curve and there he is. This old boy was used to it. He didn't even bother to look. Just kept to his side of the road and kept walking. Or maybe he was just tired of killing people that day.
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We were in several traffic jams, where 3 or 4 buffalo were walking slowly down the main road, blocking one lane. It is weird to see a nominally wild animal that is not scared of man. Never saw his brother, or even an elk get shot to death, the buffalo of Yellowstone is not worried about curious humans.
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I have ruined more than one buffalo jams photo opportunities because the tourists came to a halt because of buffalo walking down the road, as long as no opposing traffic, I just wheel out around the stopped traffic and go through the herd as I would a herd of cattle being moved down the road and majority of the time I have a 30’ stock trailer on when I do it.
Please understand I go through the Park more times in a single summer season than most folks will ever will in their lifetime, sometimes a couple times per month.
I’m not doing it to be mean or vindictive but common sense and understanding goes out the windows when tourist folk see a critter.
I’ve seen people stopped in the middle of the road to watch a coyote, when they could have easily pulled to the berm.
Mule
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dpmule, you need to understand that, to a group from China, who have never seen a buffalo, it is very exciting to get stuck 15 feet behind a buffalo, and watch him walk down the road for ten minutes. Believe me the video cams are rolling on those Iphones. It is the highlight of their trip.
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Allen, about 10 or 12 years back, we met our eldest son at Canyon village, he was hauling horses to me and I was hauling horses to him, we met at that particular spot because one it is about halfway point for both of us and it has several large parking lots that can accommodate our stock trailers and we could get ice cream for the grandkids and visit a bit.
As we pulled in, we noticed four large tour buses parked in the adjacent lot. My son arrived shortly afterwards and pulled along side me. We chatted for a few minutes before starting to unload. By the time the second horse was on the blacktop we had a several Asians filming and snapping photos, by the time we had four out, the crowd of Asians was 50+.
I could then unload my four or five, one by one and load in his trailer and several individuals literally followed me in the trailer to take pictures and did the same to my son. When we closed the doors there was close to 200 Asians filming, picture taking and jabbering a mile a minute. Within minutes they were loaded on the buses and gone.
We then went in, had our ice cream in peace and then went our respective ways.
If I spy a Bighorn ram on Sylvan pass or Dunraven pass and there is a place I can safely pull over and no one else has seen him, I will stop and glass him, but if there’s a bunch of lookee Lou’s, I keep on truckin.
Mule
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