We were able to secure a permit in late February this year. A group of six traveled on three sleds, two of us were on the trip last year with four new people.
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Tag: Winter
Yellowstone February 18 – 19: Northern Range
Traveled from Victor to Gardiner Saturday. The temps were moderate enough to pitch a tent in Mammoth. 20s at night is about the same as Canyon Village in June.
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Yellowstone February 12 – 15: Coyotes Rule the Park
Day 1
This Friday I had an opportunity to join Max and other photographers to look for bobcats. Thanks Max for letting a rookie in the group. 🙂
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Yellowstone Jan 8 – 10: Interior Snowmobile Trip
My coworker scored a permit through the self-guided tour lottery system. We have had route sketches on the marker board in the office for several weeks hashing out possible routes and plans.
This group is pretty diverse and had different objectives on the trip. A few us are big into backcountry skiing, while others are biologists into animal tracking, photographers, etc. I think we did a pretty good job at planning activities around all our wants for the trip.
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Yellowstone Feb 19 – 20: Snowcoach and Bombardier Tour
I was super excited for this trip, first one with my 7D II and Tamron 150-600 :D. Since only commercial tours are allowed in the winter, I figured I’d go all out and do a photo workshop with an area photographer. It really was a great time going in with other people learning and enjoying photography.
On Feb 18, Yellowstone announced that they are going to start plowing between West Yellowstone and Old Faithful due to poor snow conditions. This changed our plans slightly, and actually for the better.
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Jackson Hole Inversion
It’s pretty frequent to come up over Teton Pass from Idaho in the morning and see Jackson covered in a layer of low clouds. Usually it’s just some fog burning off, but sometimes it’s an inversion.