Meet Leslie & Kipp Frohlich, Teton Pass & Mosquito Creek Ambassadors
Leslie and Kipp Frohlich, who are first-time volunteer FBT Ambassadors in the summer of 2025, first visited the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem on a family vacation to Yellowstone and the Tetons in 2001. Their second time here was for the wedding of their nephew, who got married at Grand Targhee in 2009 and lives in Victor. “And we are fortunate that our son, Eric, now lives in Jackson,” they say. “One of the reasons volunteering appealed to us was that we wanted to stay longer than a week at a time. Our daughter lives in Alaska with our two grandchildren so we have visited there numerous times since retirement. But this summer we wanted to spend several months in the Tetons to really get to know the area.”
“Before we retired, we always thought that volunteering like this—if we got the right kind of camper—was something we’d be interested in,” the couple says. Kipp worked for 35 years in the wildlife conservation field. “I worked on things like endangered species protection and living safely with bears as part of my job with the State of Florida,” he says. Leslie was a teacher. “I taught kindergarten, first, second, and third grades, but most of my career was teaching kindergarten,” she says.
When not on duty for FBT, the couple hope to hike and get out on Jackson Lake or Yellowstone Lake with Eric and his fiancé Madi in their boat.
Fun fact: Kipp and Leslie are high school sweethearts who were in the same homeroom in high school and in choir together. They bought their first matching sleeping bags for each other while attending college and have not stopped camping since. They will celebrate their 46th wedding anniversary this August while volunteering for FBT.