by Natalie Ogbourne | Mar 3, 2025 | Yellowstone Stories
After a summer of working in Yellowstone and forty-five years of (almost!) annual visits to the park, a trip to Yellowstone feels like going home. This is at once a blessing and a curse. With so many places to revisit, check in on, and catch up with, it’s hard to...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Feb 4, 2025 | Yellowstone Stories
Not far into a long trudge over a snow-packed boardwalk, our snowcoach-driver-turned-Yellowstone-guide stopped and stooped down. My husband and I, along with six other snowcoach travelers, halted behind him. Surrounded by emerald and sapphire geothermal pools set in...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Dec 2, 2024 | Yellowstone Stories
a few glimpses of goodness and glory at the end of fall snow sleep bookstores cats & dogs sunshine air travel Yellowstone a great book launch 2 weeks in Yellowstone glorious fall days much needed rain the first fire of the season insurance and physical therapy...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Nov 8, 2024 | Yellowstone Stories
We started taking our kids out on Yellowstone’s trails when they were tiny, as in four, eight, and fifteen months tiny. They went from being carried to toddling to running ahead and we went from being the pack animals who carried them to trying to keep up. These...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Oct 10, 2024 | Yellowstone Stories
“Where do the rangers keep the animals at night?” Standing across the camera counter from the man who asked that question, I almost laughed. Surely he was joking. But I looked at him and saw he was serious. This guy has to be at least thirty. I thought. How could he...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Sep 12, 2024 | Yellowstone Stories
This summer one of Yellowstone’s thermal features had a moment. Headlines featuring the word explosion will do that. At the end of July, Black Diamond Pool in Biscuit Basin didn’t just erupt. It exploded. Something happened in the unstable ground below it or maybe...