Once we got through the buffalo, we pulled off at the Skyline Vista trail. We could see many of the buffalo that we had just passed working their way towards the area. I did ask Don if he thought we should take our hike, since to me, it looked like the buffalo were heading our direction, and I wanted to be sure we followed all recommended safety precautions and NOT approach any buffalo. He said they were heading the other way. I believed him. He is an information systems audit manager after all. Predicting buffalo movement is one of their required skills.
This is the boys' favorite 'climbing' rock on the Skyline Vista trail. We made our usual oohs and aaahs over the view. It is pretty spectacular.
The kids saw a snake slither under this little shrub. They said it was orange. I am thankful that I did not see it.
Turns out information system audit managers are not very skilled in predicting buffalo movement, as this is just one of the buffalo that were now in the parking area of the Skyline Vista trail. The Silver Bullet is just ~20' behind this cute little creature. I did not take any pictures of the much larger creatures that were further away, as I didn't want to anger them. I think one of them was staring us down. We chose, per my paranoid suggestion, to enter the Silver Bullet via the passenger side so as not to approach the baby buffalo.
This is at the base of another one of our favorite hiking trails. We were beyond all buffalo traffic at this site.
All in all it was a great day! While Don and the kids played on the playground, I picked us up some salt water taffy. When we got back to Mandan, we dropped the boys off at their best buddy Ryan's house for a sleepover, where they broke their all time staying up late record of managing to stay up until 4 am.
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