bison spotting

some pictures from our bison-sational trip to the rocky mountain national arsenal wildlife refuge. the once government dumping grounds for chemical weapons-turned chemical insecticide production plant is now used to house many of our nations more delicate species, including the ever popular north american bison. the buffalo-mobile is little more than a retired san francisco trolley with a new logo stenciled across the side. among a friendly park ranger and otherwise mixed company, the dreadfully under-equipped vehicle was dragged over a few miles of rough walking trail past a couple of ground hog domiciles before pulling into the gated bison complex. the protective males proceeded to charge the trolley until we finally made a poorly executed u-turn over ruggedly uneven terrain and barely made it out with the greasy side down. later, we toured the associated nature center. over the course of the three and a half minutes it took us to decide to leave, penelope broke two animal track stamps, a rabbit skull and few animal figurines. we fled the scene before the staff could put us on the black list- i'm not losing my seat on the wildlife wagon.