Category: Glacier National Park

Back to Glacier, spirit

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McDonald Creek hike. One day before the 30-mile roundtrip bicycle trek, with 3,400′ elevation gain.
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Going-to-the-Sun Road is to the right of the creek, out of sight behind the trees. This sunny and decently warm mid-May day didn’t prepare us for the biking weather.
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Snapped this pic to send to Carly, a special employee who understands our Glacier loyalty.
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i’m a believer. And a practitioner.
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It’s ‘go-tiime’.
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On the way to Avalanche Creek. Loaded up at West Glacier.
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Avalanche Creek parking area. Our guide is ensuring everyone’s bike is ready. Our guide didn’t ride with us. We didn’t ride together as a group either.
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Our first e-bike experience. Starting line at the ‘road closed’ gate.
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10:00 AM…off we go.
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Mt Oberlin.
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You can stop anywhere, anytime. Zero vehicles.
17-second video: Drew Landry and his band of locals. Gunsight Saloon in Columbia Falls.

In 10 days, we had a day, maybe two that were decently dry and warm. The eight-mile roundtrip hike along McDonald Creek was the best weather day.

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The on-deck goodbye

After quitting blogging in 16 days, the on-deck goodbye is Glacier.

By the way, quitting Glacier has a unique context. Almost like a disclaimer.

The plan is to quit the ‘prolific’ annual stays in Glacier.

The plan is to remain open to future, shorter, visits. Perhaps annually. Time will tell.

The idea of visiting for only a week or two in a given year seems uncomfortable weird. Simultaneously, it feels way better than saying ‘never returning’.

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Saying goodbye to Glacier

Saying goodbye to Glacier snuck up on me.

Not saying the thought is new. Saying it seemed farther off than 2025.

Last year it became clear that i could never live there. Had always held a romantic belief that somehow it could work. Last Summer’s (2024) extended stay in East Glacier was convincing. East Glacier was the final ‘town’ on my list of possibilities. Discovered that the cold and desolation couldn’t tip the scale.

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Hoping for Glacier

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Blood Moon. March 14, 2025, 220am. From our pool deck steps.

My hope for this Summer’s Glacier visit is closure.

Note: Not saying i never plan to return. Saying that a return visit will be a bonus.

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Glacier 2025, spirit

Woman sitting in the mountains
Continental Divide’s eastern wall.

Staying inside Glacier, without the options of West Glacier Motel or Swiftcurrent Motor Inn raises our weekly costs. This is new territory.

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