Having lived and worked in a couple of other popular national parks, I can confirm this. I sometimes questioned how some of the tourists actually found their way to the park on their own (before widespread use of smartphones and GPS navigation in vehicles).
A ranger at Rocky Mountain National park explained to a nice woman from Iowa the reason she can’t go into the meadow while it is elk rutting season “ma’am, the elk in that meadow are in the mood for 2 things and your really aren’t equipped for either of them”. It took her a minute, she turned bright red and wandered back to her car.
Yosemite bears mean business. The igloo bear - only opened up cars to look for food if an igloo cooler was visible. The hatchback bear - only opened hatchback cars after finding food in a hatchback way back when.
They can smell one old French fry in your vehicle. That scented lipgloss under the seat? They smell that too.
tbizzone on March 3rd, 2021 at 13:05 UTC »
Having lived and worked in a couple of other popular national parks, I can confirm this. I sometimes questioned how some of the tourists actually found their way to the park on their own (before widespread use of smartphones and GPS navigation in vehicles).
icenoid on March 3rd, 2021 at 14:00 UTC »
A ranger at Rocky Mountain National park explained to a nice woman from Iowa the reason she can’t go into the meadow while it is elk rutting season “ma’am, the elk in that meadow are in the mood for 2 things and your really aren’t equipped for either of them”. It took her a minute, she turned bright red and wandered back to her car.
CenterAisle on March 3rd, 2021 at 14:18 UTC »
Yosemite bears mean business. The igloo bear - only opened up cars to look for food if an igloo cooler was visible. The hatchback bear - only opened hatchback cars after finding food in a hatchback way back when.
They can smell one old French fry in your vehicle. That scented lipgloss under the seat? They smell that too.