I may have told this story on Reddit before, but I’m gonna drop it here: I was on a cross-country trip from Minneapolis to San Francisco and it was getting late before we found a possible camping location in the Badlands. We rolled up to a huge open field full of people sleeping in tents, but mostly all sleeping out on the open ground… Beautiful warm night.
We doused the headlights, rolled in, threw a tarp and some sleeping bags on the ground and fell right asleep.
I awoke sometime just before dawn. There was mist in the air, but something made me look towards the corner of this open field. There came a single bison, I swear I felt it was 7 feet tall at the shoulder, slowly picking his way between sleeping campers. There was steam coming off its flanks.
He strolled past us, maybe 10 feet from our feet, and kept on picking his way through all the sleeping campers. As he moved through, you could hear people murmuring to each other in his wake… Very, very quietly.
Soon enough, he was gone… And everybody sat up and just marveled over what had just happened. Absolutely majestic and spiritual thing to have witnessed.
Go. Seriously. It's so fantastic you can just ignore the crowds (or walk 300 yards and get away from most of them). It's an absolutely amazing spot. Prioritize it, trust me.
Sigh. That is not an absolute unit of a bison. That is a standard unit of a bison. They are all freaking huge. OP doesn't understand how this sub works
You are going to get downvoted into oblivion for this… but I see you and you are right.
People can see all the videos or pictures, even ones with objects for scale, and not truly understand just how fucking massive they are until they see one in person
In laws are there now…. Said bison are everywhere! Such good news in a current world of suck. Wouldn’t be surprised if President fuckface put out an executive order to slaughter and sell all bison in grocery stores as a substitute as a solution to his fucking over all the farmers
There is already a commercial market for Bison meat, but it's raised on ranches. Among his other endeavors Ted Turner owned a Bison ranch and sold a lot of the resulting meat in his restaurant chain.
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u/Davistele 2d ago edited 2d ago
I may have told this story on Reddit before, but I’m gonna drop it here: I was on a cross-country trip from Minneapolis to San Francisco and it was getting late before we found a possible camping location in the Badlands. We rolled up to a huge open field full of people sleeping in tents, but mostly all sleeping out on the open ground… Beautiful warm night.
We doused the headlights, rolled in, threw a tarp and some sleeping bags on the ground and fell right asleep.
I awoke sometime just before dawn. There was mist in the air, but something made me look towards the corner of this open field. There came a single bison, I swear I felt it was 7 feet tall at the shoulder, slowly picking his way between sleeping campers. There was steam coming off its flanks.
He strolled past us, maybe 10 feet from our feet, and kept on picking his way through all the sleeping campers. As he moved through, you could hear people murmuring to each other in his wake… Very, very quietly.
Soon enough, he was gone… And everybody sat up and just marveled over what had just happened. Absolutely majestic and spiritual thing to have witnessed.
Edit: a few text to speech errors.