Learning from experience. The way it is today is far superior.
Those people walking across Grand Prismatic are idiots! That whole area has boiling hot springs underneath, and the crust they are walking across could give way at any time. There are signs everywhere… stay on the boardwalk!
Was there this summer, and saw a touron walk up to a buffalo for a selfie!
Morons getting too close to Bison because they foolishly and wrongly equate them as like domestic cows seems to be the biggest tourist issue out there these days.
Those things will grind your butt into the dirt if they take a notion.
This infuriates me, it seems to be happening a lot - the solution will be to fence off areas where the thermal pools are so we'll have to look at them from a far distance - for our own safety, of course.
Idiots that stray off of the CLEARLY designated paths should be arrested, fined and barred from national parks forever.
I remember a couple of years ago, some idiots let their little dog out of their car unleashed - the pup stepped in a hot pool, ran and jumped into the big hot pool - the owner jumped in after the dog to save it.
Usually this is terminal idiocy, the pup didn’t survive but the woman did - but with lots and lots of major injuries.
Outdoor pingie list...
Our local park is being overrun with aggressive deer blocking the way and ducks plopping on every surface all thanks to the IGIT dogooders giving regular feedings.
Take down all the signs, stop all the warnings and get rid of any fences or barricades. Let people dance on Old Faithful.
In about 6-18 moths all will be good.
Ranger Smith, who kept Yogi and Boo-Boo in line, deserves our eternal gratitude.
As a kid at summer camp we had to wait outside the dining lodge while the cooks got the last-minute stuff waiting.
One of the songs we sang had the verse
“Here we sit like bears at the garbage dump,
waiting for our food.
Waiting for our food, waiting for our food....”
The indiscriminant feeding of healthy bears and healthy homeless people have a lot in common. It makes begging a daily way of life and entitlement rather than an rare last resort.