still quite cool at night and weather was changeable........including a nice hail storm late one evening.

this fellow was walking beside the road, and the hail, and the thunder put him in a bad mood....we stopped right beside him and he gave us the evil eye...like Robert Ruark said, he looked at us like we owed him money:

the thunder rolled when he was maybe 5 feet from the SUV window....he grunted tossed his horns at us and trotted closer.......we

moved right along !

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Few people realize just how big those critters are until they get up close. At their peak, the northern and southern herds combined were estimated at somewhere around 10 million. There is no such thing as a "buffalo proof" fence, the buffs just have no interest in what's on the other side.

JLF

Than anything else.

injured a few days before we were there.

frolicking and chasing each other and irritating the [ already irritable ] big males:

none of us EVER irritated the elders i will bet

There is a herd of Bison that I have seen on every trip through there. They were especially daunting in the dark as I was heading to Ft. Nelson and running way behind schedule. Very large when you realize you are zipping through their ranks at 60mph.

and you are traveling fast, it would be easy to hit a whole herd.......nearly did that once in the early 80s

We saw those guys the last two days.

Big herd east of the hot springs,

and lots of bachelor bulls closer to Watson Lake.

or is it Totanka?

they were trying to tell people to keep clear of the Buffs. The video showed a tourist getting close to a big one and getting tossed 10' up in the air.

We talked to a guy in Cody who said they would go into the park in the winter on snowmobiles. He said one time they rode around a curve and there was a herd on the road in front of them. Nothing they could do but turn around and go back the other way.

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or so crossing the road. Noticed one calf dragging a broken leg... Very glad I could stop in time. It was pitch black out. Very cool to see them.

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