There’s a Facebook group I follow called Storytellers, and here’s a story it posted that caught my eye. This is from KSL, the NBC affiliate in Salt Lake City owned by Bonneville International. NOTE: In the early ’70s, a couple of friends and I were on a winter ski trip out west. One day, at […]
There’s a Facebook group I follow called Storytellers, and here’s a story it posted that caught my eye.
This is from KSL, the NBC affiliate in Salt Lake City owned by Bonneville International.
NOTE: In the early ’70s, a couple of friends and I were on a winter ski trip out west. One day, at the suggestion of a friend, we went to Yellowstone.
The park was deserted. We each rented a snow mobile and off we went, racing three abreast down the snow-covered road.
Since the snowmobiles were capable of doing 50 mph, we were able to cover the entire 150 miles of the park, all without seeing another human being.
We did see plenty of wildlife.
At a place called the Painted Pots, where the steam melts off the snow so the bison can graze on the grass, we got off the snow mobiles and traversed the raised path that wandered through the hot springs.
There was a herd of bison crossing the path right next to us, and my friend had a motor-driven camera that made a weird noise as he snapped pictures.
The bull bison eyed up suspiciously.
The clouds of steam swirled around us, sometimes hiding the bison, sometimes hiding us.
Later, we found out that several tourists a year are run down and killed by the male bison in situations just like this.
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