{"id":607,"date":"2012-08-03T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=607"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:50:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:50:44","slug":"the-bison-of-jackson-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=607","title":{"rendered":"The Bison of Jackson Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/7673653754\/\" title=\"IMG_1997 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/7673653754_4471ec8405-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_1997\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">We saw lots of bison during our recent trip to the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=43.7333333333,-110.803333333&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=43.7333333333,-110.803333333%20(Grand%20Teton%20National%20Park)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Grand Teton National Park\">Grand Teton National Park<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=43.4752777778,-110.769166667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=43.4752777778,-110.769166667%20(Jackson%2C%20Wyoming)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Jackson, Wyoming\">Jackson Hole, Wyoming<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/7673660308\/\" title=\"IMG_1998 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/7673660308_9e0df18dbf-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_1998\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">These animals are big. &nbsp;They didn&#8217;t seem much bothered by all the people around but I gave them a wide berth. I have a feeling that if they decided to chase you it could get serious very quickly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/7673648660\/\" title=\"IMG_1996 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/7673648660_72786731f7-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_1996\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">There is something about watching bison that is pretty cool. It is great to see them in the wild.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/7673605506\/\" title=\"IMG_1986 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/7673605506_67408c001f-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_1986\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">This trip we didn&#8217;t get close to the Tetons except for a brief restroom stop at the park visitor center in Moose. Away from the crowds there is more room and quieter. The park headquarters is right under the flight path for the Jackson airport. A steady stream of corporate jets was quite irritating. It&#8217;s like the 1% were piling into the valley for a last stand or something.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/7673510104\/\" title=\"IMG_1963 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/7673510104_8804667db8-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_1963\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Out on Antelope Flats where the bison were things were much more primitive. If you want to call digital cameras with zoom lenses primitive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/7673520042\/\" title=\"IMG_1965 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/7673520042_06070f2bf4-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_1965\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I just couldn&#8217;t get enough of these guys.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/7673523334\/\" title=\"IMG_1966 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/7673523334_e30f9b15d7-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_1966\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">They have such small eyes for such large animals. I guess they see what they need to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/camera-critters.blogspot.com\/\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">Camera Critters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/zemified_e.png\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We saw lots of bison during our recent trip to the Grand Teton National Park in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. These animals are big. &nbsp;They didn&#8217;t seem much bothered by all the people around but I gave them a wide berth. I have a feeling that if they decided to chase you it could get serious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[347,520,593,592],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bison","category-camera-critters","category-national-parks","category-wyoming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}