Category: Glacier National Park

Planned to go alone

  • Lunch Creek. Pollock Mountain.
  • Two miles and what feels like straight up.
  • This 45-degree looking trail feels steeper.
  • Looking back early in the hike.
Piegan Mountain Hike September 21, 2020.

Go alone with your ideas for speed. Go with others for strength. With the right partner you can do both.

dad

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Curiosity is common

Committed to flossing. This type is optimal. Not sold in local stores. The floss i brought has lasted 5 weeks but will deplete soon. Never dawned on me until today i can use Amazon while at Glacier.

Most are curious. Few are committed. You will become one of many or one of the few.

dad

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Falling behind

mountain surrounded by clouds
Hiking with severely limited visibility is not for me. It was challenging to convert an expected hiking day to a rest day. Do what you have to do, right?
motel map
Last year in room 10, wifi was awesome. This year, non-existent. Here’s what walking around yielded…only 4 rooms receive in-room wifi. Cell signal is just ok, not good. Key: 2d is two double beds…Q is one queen bed. All my 2020 reservations are for 2d. Wifi is only in four Q rooms (noted on map). Pursuit converted my weekly reservations so i could be in wifi zone.
  • This was just ok. Glad to try it while in town versus at Granite Park Chalet. Loved experimenting. It’s how we learn.
  • Lunch (and dinner) table is my lap and a plastic Adirondack chair. Western State’s wildfires continue to reduce visibility and move air quality to dangerous.
West Glacier “rest day” activities.

For the past seven years, i return from Glacier and brainstorm how to maximize life’s structure and process.

Why?

For extended periods being off-the-grid, i over-compensate after returning home to Walt Disney World.

Playing catch up is hypocritical to my values.

Playing catch up robs me (us) of the present moment.

The vision is to return from Glacier and not have to do any catchup work.

With each year, a structure, process, or priority is tweaked.

Got blindsided this year – and overwhelmed with catching up.

The reality is each Summer there is enough catch up work that the volume produces stress and disharmony.

Making good wifi and cell signal 2020’s top priority was a huge change. And i banked on it being a game changer.

Yes and, didn’t foresee a 50-consecutive day trip.

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Intentional feeling

black eyed susan flowers
Near the McDonalds and the Sporting/Camping goods store.
  • The owner is all in. No question. All in often looks heretical. Does my passion for balance look to others like this pickup truck does to me?
  • No sewing kits in three towns. Creative idea – use tent repair kit to sew torn pockets.
Glacier “rest days” administration activities.

Where your feelings default to is where your daily peace defaults to.

dad

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Life is not meant for this

Video explains what to do after passing the pond.
The three basins are in photo, center. My Siyeh is a huge mountain and it’s sides are decieving.
Three basins, from this angle, are easily spotted. But from the summit trail, i have yet to see them. We are on Matahpi Mountain looking across to Siyeh.
Siyeh is massive. It can easily confuse if you are not 100% certain where you are going.

Life is not meant for cramming and regretting.

dad

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