by Natalie Ogbourne | Sep 12, 2024 | Lessons from Yellowstone, Yellowstone Guide
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...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Aug 15, 2024 | Lessons from Yellowstone
Walking under a canopy of lodgepole pines, I heard the melody of the rapids long before we reached the river. Although the day was sunny and dry, the season had been wet, and the ferns flourished in the shade bestowed by the towering trees lining the bank. Here at...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Oct 24, 2023 | Lessons from Yellowstone, Yellowstone Guide
It wasn’t until the third hike of our week in Yellowstone that we found the dreaded bear frequenting area sign planted in the dirt at the trailhead. I sighed. Every time I see this sign I’m not only frustrated that it gives absolutely no useful information, I’m left...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Aug 29, 2023 | Lessons from Yellowstone
My youngest daughter was eight when my family and I found ourselves in the path of a bear at close range on the trail. (Read more here.) As kids are prone to do, her response to learning there was a bear heading down the trail in our direction was to make an...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Mar 17, 2023 | Lessons from Yellowstone
“It’s time to turn around,” my husband said. Relieved, I pivoted on the spot. J and I were in Yellowstone’s Bechler Region, a remote area with no roads, plenty of waterfalls, and its share of bears. It took the morning just to drive there. After spending the rest of...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Oct 8, 2022 | Pause, Ponder the Path, Press On
At the switchback, I paused for a breath and surveyed the landscape. Interested as I was in the spruce and fir trees dotting Lamar Valley’s faded grass, what I really wanted was to see how far my husband and I had come so I could figure out know how much further I had...