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It's almost like animals are wild or something.

 

If that were me I’d return home with two bear skin rugs

 

Oh man, I always feel so much better after an IV infusion of liquids

 

I was just in rocky mountain national park and it's insane how big wild animals get. Saw some absolutely MAMMOTH Elk. Even the deer were huge. Didn't see any bears though.

I have also seen Bison. I don't know why anyone would approach one.

 

when I went to Yellowstone people were walking right up to these bison that were easily the size of fucking dump trucks and posing and taking selfies with them

unfortunately I didn't see anyone get gored or stomped to death, but we weren't there that long

 

There’s a very small black bear population in the park. Did you go in on the Estes Park side? The elk heard is usually bedded right there at the entrance which is really cool to see coming in.

 

Yeah people absolutely suck at national parks. It's so frustrating. It actaully wasn't TOO bad, or at least we didn't see anything too bad, when we did our trip in 2018, but the vids and pics I've seen of people going right up to these animals...just fucking morons.

The worst we saw on our trip was the sea lions/seals at La Jolla Cove. People gave those poor things absolutely no space.

 

Truthfully, the reason I was on an IV is because my blood sugar was out of control and I felt super weak, but as the water filtered out the sugar, I could feel myself slowly recovering. So if people think they'll feel like that... I still don't get it. But then again, I don't get why people do a lot of things.

 

one Ranger we saw was telling people "please do not feed the animals. not for your own safety, I don't care if they eat you, but because it teaches them to come towards people and be around people, and then we have to shoot them, and we do not want to have to shoot them"

 

Drove from Denver through Estes to the Bearlake trailhead in which we promptly were unable to do any hiking due to snow on the ground (did not expect that to be honest... thought mid May it'd be thawed enough to get somewhere). So we ended up walking around Sprague lake, driving through the park for a bit, and getting lunch in Estes. Saw the Elk and and some whitetails on the way in. Lots of wild turkeys too crossing the road everywhere. One Elk was in someone's yard next to a swing set and yea, insane how big it was with something for scale.

 

So we’re all full of microplastics and getting cancer and that’s just how it is?

 

Always has been.

 

I also have a friend who lives in North Georgia and I cannot get her to stop feeding all the deer in her neighborhood. They congregate in her yard in huge numbers and now she's complaining that they are pests to her plants.. like no shit. Yet I still don't think the connection that feeding and encouraging them to group and associate with humans is bad... Disease spreading between the animals / traffic problems and risk of accidents / destruction to people's yards etc. To be fair, I have not been aggressive about it and just been nice but I really want to say something that gets the point across.

 

My favorite wildlife in the park was the Pika's, just because I had seen a video about them when I was long term subbing for an AP Environmental Science class, and they're in danger since they live in high cool places. Sitting up near the top of Trail Ridge Road and watching the pika run around the rocks was fun.



The moose on the west side of the park were awesome too though. Got some really great pictures of videos of a momma moose and a frolicking baby, and some other pics of a mom with twins. AND saw our first and only male moose there after no luck in Tetons, Yellowstone, or Glacier on that front. But that was also the year the Park Rangers were telling us they were trying to get wolves re-introduced to the park because the Moose were eating too much lichen and ruining the beaver population because of it.

 

not me - I only eat raw liver from animals I slay with my bare hands and only drink water from pure mountain streams, but not everyone is built like me


the rest of you are effed

 

Oh cool

 

If you think about it, it's almost a relief that all we have to do now is wait for the end.

 

I had only seen moose from far away in like NH and Maine, but when we visited my buddy in Jackson Hole he took us up in the mountains in his jeep, and at one point we parked on this sort of ridge and just waited, and sure enough a very large moose ended up walking by below us but within only a few hundred yards and it was absolutely incredible

 

We camped in the Jellystone Park outside of Estes for a night, and when we woke up, we heard some commotion and literally right outside of our tent was this:


It was really cool except they were literally only like 10-15 feet from our tent entrance and we were afraid if we went out that the mom would get agitated and attack us lol. Eventually we did and they just walked away as family.

Sprague Lake is a nice easy stroll. IIRC. We did bear lake and then did the Nymph/Dream/Emerald like hikes, definitely worth it if you can get back out there again when it's all thawed out.

 

A few weeks ago, my mom and I were sitting outside in our garage and a herd of four deer came across our driveway and crossed the road, and it was one of the greatest things I've ever seen.

 

Yeah we accidentally got too close to young female moose in Grand Tetons lol. They're all over the place there, but we just couldn't find a male anywhere. In RMNP one walked right across the road in front of us. Good rule of thumb in the NPs is if your'e driving and you suddenly see a few cars pulled off to the side of the road, you should also pull off because that means there's wildlife near by haha.

 

Loved visiting Estes Park in CO. Driving by the Stanley hotel was pretty cool. Beautiful drive, great shops and restaurants.

Hadn't seen many moose in my life until a few years ago when we drove up to an AIRBNB in Jackson, NH. Encountered several on the side of the road along the way, there and back. Was very cool, we actually had to stop behind another car who was letting one cross the street

 

Yeah the Stanley was real cool to see. ANd you're right, just a great little town. I know it's "tourist-y" or whatever but it's nice. I forget where we are there but it was good.

Moab had similar vibes in Utah, tourist-y town but awesome

 

I was 100% convinced I was about to witness a bear mauling in Yellowstone a few years ago. We were literally on our way out of the park and saw some cars along the side of the road and on a whim decided to stop and see what they were looking at. There was a grizzly like 100 ish yards away on the hillside. We all watched this one guy inch closer and closer with his camera until the bear was visibly agitated - people were yelling at him to get away from it, to turn around, etc. and he finally did but damn, what an incredibly dumbass thing to do lol. Most anxious I've ever been around wildlife