Posted on 08/29/2016 4:45:13 AM PDT by SJackson
Edited on 08/29/2016 1:31:19 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. - Tourist John Gleason crept through the grass, four small children close behind, inching toward a bull elk with antlers like small trees at the edge of a meadow in Yellowstone National Park.
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Say to Tim Treadwell when you meet him, lady.
that or a lottery system, of course with preferential points the minorities because they have historically been totally excluded from setting foot in a national park ,you know....
if you can, go after Labor day, when there a few less tourists....but you'd be surprised how many Asians come over in the fall months to see the parks...
Even when firearms were not permitted in National Parks, in Alaska even the rangers considered hikers carrying firearms to be prudent. I’ve heard that the firearm prohibition was not really enforced, especially in bear country.
Some people don’t realize that there are places where they are not at the top of the food chain.
Should look on the bright side. After those “crystal clear mountain stream” parasites do their work, morbidly obese daddy will be skinny as a string bean.
THAT woman belonged in a zoo....IOW...locked up.
I, too, observed some incredibly stupid behavior at a national park in Colorado (this being the Great Sand Dunes). I climbed up one of the high dunes for some photos and turned westward to see some nasty storm clouds fast approaching. I see some tourists well off in the direction of the storms on the dunes (and there’s no way they can’t see what’s approaching) and they’re continuing to walk westward. I couldn’t warn them as they were too far off, so I practically ran down the dunes east back towards the car before the storm hit. To be caught out there in the middle of the dunes with a thunderstorm and lightning with no place to take refuge... epic-level idiocy.
In order to win the Darwin Award, the bear would have to dispatch her children first.
No Award if it is possible to pass her genes along...
Thanks for the mention. Just ordered a kindle version...
Reminds me of another tome I bought a few years ago, describing how ignorant and stupid bureaucrat "environmentalists" came close to destroying the park and its wildlife :
Playing God in Yellowstone: The Destruction of America's First National Park" by Alston Chase.
Yes, they could have been victims of the famous flash floods, or struck by lightning. The cool thing about Colorado is that you can see your afternoon thunderstorm developing all day long in the distance, gradually drawing closer to you. So you can't say you weren't warned, if you are weather-wise.
And let's not forget the few tourists that get fried from cloud to ground lightning every year in the keyhole on Longs Peak in Rocky Mt. National Park. Lightning can be drawn to you by your keys, your carabiners, etc. I really feel for the rock climbers I see who are really far up when one of the sudden mountain storms strikes.
I remember hiking up the Watchman Trail in Zion National Park (beautiful!!) one summer and nearly getting to the top. I glanced up and saw that right over the mountain was a big sudden storm. My friend and I RAN down that mountain like mountain goats. Funny how it took so much less time than laboriously making our way UP that mountain. We ran as fast as humanly possible and just made it to the ranger station before the deluge struck, big bolts of lightning and all. Whew!
It's been suggested (mostly by Montanans living in the eastern two-thirds of the state...like me) that the area around Missoula, Kalispell and Bozeman has been so overrun by California/Oregon/Washington interlopers that we may as well secede and let them go starve to death in the damn dark along with their buddies in the Sierra Club.
As far as the parks are concerned, both Yellowstone and Glacier have been plagued by no-brainer tourists for as long as they've been around. I recall thirty years ago that there was a regular radio station program in the Kalispell area featuring the Latest Stupid Tourist Tricks at Glacier and in spite of the park's relative isolation at that time, the program never, ever repeated itself or ran out of absolutely mind-blowing material.
I wouldn't waste my time or money going to either Glacier or 'Stone.
Guess I just never have lightly suffered idiots.
Wr drove through Glacier and did a little hiking, kept an eye out for bears. Was amazing.
It is gorgeous! We stayed in a cute hotel just outside Banff, walking distance with a view of the town and mountains...and bears in the parking lot!
The trail we were on was close to our favorite bistro, Baker Creek Bistro, nearer Lake Louise...awesome food. The trail was Johnston Canyon and we decided to take a hike before dinner and saw the bear. When we got to the bistro my hands were shaking so I could barely drink my first drink, haa! The weather was gorgeous in the summer...cool and even snowed one night. My husband was a triathlete so we’d stop for a few days in Banff/Lake Louise and hike and then go to Kelowna for the triathlon...gorgeous drive through the mountains. ENJOY!!
Typical humans. In our day and age.
the amazing thing is that there aren't more injuries. That was a mellow grizzly.
A wonderful place. Not like people aren't warned about those things, by the time he got sick he was near a Dr. Many years ago I was backing there with my kids, and at dusk a lady and her daughter approached us and asked us the way back to her car. Couldn't have been more that a couple miles off the road, and I had a park map/brochure to direct her, but how stupid can you be.
I read your story.
The best possible outcome would have been that the woman was mauled to death.
Stupid should be fatal.
She just didn't have our scent yet, and the cub had not bawled.
Two weeks after that, a hiker was attacked and severely mauled on the same trail, farther up from the meadow.
My report of the bear incident was one of several in that area, I found out later.
The bear that did the mauling was a transplant and did have a cub.
Although not proven, I suspect it was the one we had encountered.
Grizzlies are funny creatures...I had one sit across a creek from me at Glacier, once...staring intently, with that "I would eat you, if I could get to you" look, until I moved enough to disturb a "flock" of butterflies of some sort...at which point he literally jumped into the air and hauled some serious butt.
They scare the absolute hell out of me and I never go into the back country without full power OC and my .454 Casull, with custom loads.
The law be damned, I will not be eaten by a bear, at least not willingly, nor will I allow my fear of them to stop me from going into those areas.
And has been...
As in the heavily menstruating woman, who had been told specifically, not to go into bear country at that particular time.
She assured all that she had experience and she had a gun.
They found her tent torn into little pieces, her body was found within 40 feet or so, her feet still entangled in her sleeping bag, her upper body half eaten and the entire gory mess lightly buried by sticks and brush...indicating the bear had intentions of returning to his meal.
Oh, and her gun...a .22 revolver, in her back pack, some distance from the scene.
Just ordered it , thanks .
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