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Post by rockymtblue2 on May 16, 2016 15:56:52 GMT -5
www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/yellowstone-tourists-put-bison-calf-in-car-spurring-warning/ar-BBt7pJ9?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=AARDHPA "foreign father and son" grew concerned that a bison calf was cold, so they put it in the back of their rented SUV and took it to a Ranger Station. Now it is a dead baby bison. Being able to travel to Yellowstone and drive into the park doesn't mean you are smart enough to be worth spit! We were in the park last Saturday and watched 4 people get off a boardwalk and onto delicate thermal ground to take a bunch of group shots while their Park licensed guide grinned stupidly at them, thinking about the big tip he's get at the end of the day. It happens all over. People go on holiday and lose their common sense. I try to stay out of the park in tourist season. Hell, I try to stay out of Bozeman in tourist season. It's big money, but also big crazy.
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Post by pinotbear on May 16, 2016 19:52:53 GMT -5
Absolutely - when I was in the park in Sept. of 2014, I saw several examples of tourist who walked next to, and behind, signs that said "Don't walk here! Danger!" - those delicate thermal areas you speak of. Of course, it appeared that many of these tourists did not speak, nor read, English, as they were often from tour groups from the Pacific Rim.
I saw that story about the baby bison and the foreign tourists. It is amazing how folks don't just stop and look at how large and powerful those animals are - it's a wonder Momma didn't plow 'em into pancakes. Further, it shows no respect whatsoever for the natural system, assuming that their minivan is a better environment than what Mother Nature has created over thousands and thousands of years.
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Post by semper on May 16, 2016 22:51:12 GMT -5
I was walking with family near Cornell several years ago and it was a hot, dry summer. We could hear the shale crackling in the gorge above us. There were clear signs about where not to walk. A woman went walk in one of the designated danger zones and was killed by falling rocks. It was really awful.
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Post by rockymtblue2 on May 17, 2016 16:24:11 GMT -5
I was walking with family near Cornell several years ago and it was a hot, dry summer. We could hear the shale crackling in the gorge above us. There were clear signs about where not to walk. A woman went walk in one of the designated danger zones and was killed by falling rocks. It was really awful. My greatest familiarity with the gorges in the Ithaca area stems from my lustful desires for the coeds across the suspension bridge over sp?? Cascadilla Gorge on the Cornell campus. Undergrad class of '69.
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Post by semper on May 17, 2016 16:30:57 GMT -5
Ithaca is gorges!
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Post by pinotbear on May 17, 2016 17:47:34 GMT -5
Class of '79, Rocky! And, semper, "Ithaca is gorges" is a classic, but, I think my favorite is a bumper sticker I saw in Sudbury, MA, about 3 years ago. "Ithaca, NY: 10 square miles surrounded by reality".
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