We were camping at Gros Ventre Campground in the Tetons My wife and I are early risers and usually went on an early morning walk and let the kids sleep a little longer. One day we were walking through a tangle of brush along the river with my wife leading and she stopped in her tracks. I told her to get moving because the kids would be up soon. She whispered that there was a moose up ahead. I looked around the corner and there was the back side of a young bull moose about 3 feet away. We quietly backed up while keeping large trees between us and the moose.
Later on the same trip, we were hiking along South Rim Trail between the upper and lower Yellowstone falls. Our 4 daughters (aged 5 to 12) ran ahead to explore. They came running back all excited and #3 informed me that there was a bison laying in the middle of the trail up ahead. I took my camera and got a photo of stupid people walking within 10 feet of a full grown bison bull. Some people have no respect for what wild animal can do. A bison can run 30 mph and a person is no more than a speed bump when they run over you.
The bison is now the favorite animal of daughter #3. Her house looks like a bison museum.
