> If you're ever in a situation similar to this, run as fast and as far as you can.
Yellowstone tourists have a proud tradition of not running from things they should be.
Yellowstone tourists have a proud tradition of not running from things they should be.
As Sean Connery says in Hunt for Red October, "We must give this American a wide berth."
I think of it as the National Park discontinuity: few people these days have experience being in environments that can be rapidly lethal.
And there isn't a sign in National Parks saying "Past this line, there are apex predators, dangerous natural features, no cell phone service, and/or the nearest medical facility being a backcountry airlift away."
That's a big change from most people's everyday normal.