http://blog.outdoorzy.com/2007/09/10/bison-are-mean/ The blog for Outdoorzy.com! Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:20:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://blog.outdoorzy.com/2007/09/10/bison-are-mean/#comment-54660 allison Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:01:03 +0000 http://blog.outdoorzy.com/2007/09/10/bison-are-mean/#comment-54660 Yeah, you'd think you'd notice a bison before you were 20 feet from it. But, without the gorey part, I had this very same experience near Two Harbors on Catalina last spring. I was coming down a trail through a small oak woods, and popped out onto a road just as a cantankerous male bison popped out of the thicket onto the road from the other side. I'd estimate there was less than 12 feet between us. The first I knew he was there was his stinky snorty huffing and woolly hump. He made some threatening moves, but after what seemed like forever, he went away, stinking and snorting still. I've hiked in bison country frequently (Yellowstone, Black Hills, etc), and would never approach a bison closely ever, but there is the occasional accidental circumstance that puts people and crabby bison too close together. By the way, my guess is that he never heard, saw, or smelled me until the moment I saw him. We were both terrified. Yeah, you’d think you’d notice a bison before you were 20 feet from it. But, without the gorey part, I had this very same experience near Two Harbors on Catalina last spring. I was coming down a trail through a small oak woods, and popped out onto a road just as a cantankerous male bison popped out of the thicket onto the road from the other side. I’d estimate there was less than 12 feet between us. The first I knew he was there was his stinky snorty huffing and woolly hump. He made some threatening moves, but after what seemed like forever, he went away, stinking and snorting still. I’ve hiked in bison country frequently (Yellowstone, Black Hills, etc), and would never approach a bison closely ever, but there is the occasional accidental circumstance that puts people and crabby bison too close together. By the way, my guess is that he never heard, saw, or smelled me until the moment I saw him. We were both terrified.

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