BlueBear
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Post by BlueBear on Aug 31, 2015 12:26:47 GMT -8
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BigLoad
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Post by BigLoad on Aug 31, 2015 12:30:14 GMT -8
If they want to see bears, they should come to New Jersey.
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tigger
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Post by tigger on Aug 31, 2015 12:55:32 GMT -8
Who is this bluebear character...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2015 13:04:49 GMT -8
Ya just can't please everyone. Did that visitor enter the Yellowstone bison lottery?
Each summer a lucky visitor or two or three can stand a few feet from well-trained bison to have their silly human rumps tossed 15-feet up into a tree while their friends watch and get videos. Then the trained bison gives the lucky lottery winner a gore-wound souvenir to show all the nurses and doctors in a distant hospital — and maybe even a helicopter ride to the hospital.
Every visitor paying the appropriate visitor fee has a chance to win the bison lottery, and lucky winners are announced at random throughout the summer.
Fine print: the hospital bill is extra.
Now they want a grizzly lottery? Sheesh! Demands and more demands! Why can't people appreciate what they have? . . . er, like BigLoad suggested, go to New Jersey.
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BlueBear
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Post by BlueBear on Aug 31, 2015 13:05:26 GMT -8
Yep. Stupid to complain about the park on a lodge suggestion form! Like Housekeeping has anything to do with training park bears... (heh heh) I know, right? Any moron knows you should leave that at the Ranger desk instead. I mean, c'mon. |
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Aug 31, 2015 14:01:54 GMT -8
The parks are trapped by their own advertising: Yosemite pimps Half Dome and the waterfalls, Yellowstone does the same with geysers and Bison and Grizzlies.
You put stuff on enough t-shirts and people will be pissed if they don't get the promised show.
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johnnyray
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Post by johnnyray on Aug 31, 2015 14:15:19 GMT -8
First time I was in Yellowstone was a family camping trip 1969. School had just let out and there was a line of cars waiting to get in the Park. There seemed to be a bear for mooching for food at every car, many were being fed. I prefer it the way it is now in regards to bear visibility. About the trip, us tender foot mid-westerners were unprepared, there was still some snow on the ground and we were pretty cold at night.
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reuben
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Post by reuben on Aug 31, 2015 14:52:09 GMT -8
Well, at least they didn't see one, get too close, and... you know.
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leafwalker
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Post by leafwalker on Aug 31, 2015 17:00:31 GMT -8
Good story. I really enjoy touron nonsense. I remember a bunch of things from rangers I read somewhere. Probably here, a couple of years ago.
As for the buffalo lottery. That would be interesting. I remember one time in TR NP my wife and I were out hiking and a bull on a ridge was doing all the warning signs. We made a wide detour. I hate to think what would have happened if someone would have continued on the trail just a small bluff below the buff.
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whistlepunk
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Post by whistlepunk on Aug 31, 2015 17:48:20 GMT -8
It's a drought year. They should stop Yellowstone Falls and all the geysers at night to save water.
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Post by burntfoot on Aug 31, 2015 19:36:42 GMT -8
That's why we called them "tourons" when I worked in the park.
When we were bored, friends and I would drive to a road pull-off, get out of the car, and start pointing off in the distance across a meadow. Other cars were stopped, and people would be looking for something with binoculars (often imaging that they saw "it." After 5 other cars were stopped, we would quietly slip back to our vehicle and take off.
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Post by rebeccad on Aug 31, 2015 19:45:44 GMT -8
When we were bored, friends and I would drive to a road pull-off, get out of the car, and start pointing off in the distance across a meadow. Other cars were stopped, and people would be looking for something with binoculars (often imaging that they saw "it." After 5 other cars were stopped, we would quietly slip back to our vehicle and take off. You are evil! But, hilarious  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2015 20:13:52 GMT -8
That's why we called them "tourons" when I worked in the park. When we were bored, friends and I would drive to a road pull-off, get out of the car, and start pointing off in the distance across a meadow. Other cars were stopped, and people would be looking for something with binoculars (often imaging that they saw "it." After 5 other cars were stopped, we would quietly slip back to our vehicle and take off. When I'm by myself, all I have to do is point a camera across Hayden or Lamar Valleys, and I get the same response. Snicker.  |
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Westy
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Post by Westy on Sept 1, 2015 3:10:18 GMT -8
get out of the car, and start pointing off in the distance I'm going to teach my kids that one, take some photos and be a Facebook hero for a day. Title: "Hey kids, let's play Scam the Touron!" As they say back home, "Wicked Pissah!" |
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Post by johnnyray on Sept 1, 2015 6:08:26 GMT -8
In the early 80s a buddy and I drove my van to Yellowstone. We were cruising through the park and I stopped to let him pee, before you know it there were a half dozen cars lined up behind us and people with cameras and binocs. getting out asking WHAT? WHAT DO YOU SEE? mission aborted.
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