The second one was about 4 years ago….. My son and I were on a whirlwind tour of Yellowstone before school started for the year. About 5:30am my son wakes me up and says “Dad, I think there’s a bear outside” I listened and I heard this snorting and grunting from just a few feet away from our tent. We had made sure when we went to bed that there was no food left out and the campsite was clean before we went to bed as I was well aware of the dangers of food storage in bear country. So I quietly sit up, peek out and there, not more than 5′ away was a GIANT Bull Buffalo (he must have weighed at least 2000 lbs) walking away.
He strolled only another few feet than plopped his big butt down and just sat there about 10′ away from me on the other side of my Jeep Cherokee. After a few minutes of letting the fear subside we just started laughing like mad. I then grabbed my camera and got out and snapped a couple of pictures. We stayed in the Jeep for another hour until the monster ambled away.
