Category: Glacier National Park

GNP Day 2, spiritually

13-second video: Here is where i veered right to explore – an area i’ve never stepped foot on.
Wildflowers
Wildflower season ramps up as snow melts.
Mountains
Clements Mountain from a first-ever angle. The moon makes a guest appearance.
Small Disney character toys in the mountains
This cliff ledge is exciting to experience. A new frontier.

Lean into adventure.

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6-second video: Mei Mei and (Elvis) Stitch make an appearance. 
11-second Continental Divide panorama, featuring Granite Park Chalet at the start.

Expertise is the ability to do something effortlessly that others consider heavy lifting.

To easily channel creative energy into an inspiring solution pays generous dividends.

Relentless practice. 

Dividends reaped from countless challenges and trail and error solutions.

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GNP Day 1, spiritually

4-second video: The Flathead Valley and home of Kalispell Airport…end of video you can see the cut-through in the lowest, and closest, ridge (near the top, in the distance).

Lean into discomfort.

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Getting angry at yourself for making mistakes doesn’t teach you not to make mistakes. It teaches you to stop taking risks. Mind your reactions and your habits.

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‘Twas the night before, spiritually

8-second video: Probably started with 10-12 ducklings. The gift of another day is literally a miracle in the wild.

‘Twas the night before the blessed gift of another day.

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Sent this note to an Apple employee who exceeded my (high) expectations. Chalk, a sidewalk, and a camera. Could have sent a typical email.

‘Twas the night before, spiritually…GNP…

Leaving my two favorite places in the whole world to visit my third fav.

Note: Glacier, WDW, and Sanibel are a three-way tie for 3rd favorite place on the planet. Number 2 is our front porch. Number one is were i’m writing this from, our back porch.

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Pollock Mountain closeup

21-second 2020 video: Pollock Mountain closeup…with Bishops Cap and Garden Wall all the way to Mt Gould.
man bundled up on a mountain
Time stamping 2020 with a Covid-19 mask.

Easy to forget the reason Glacier is an annual visit is simply because we wanted to imprint on our Son some other place besides home and Sanibel Island. Glacier was a calculated risk. Not guaranteed, yet hard to fail.

It almost failed after the second visit.

What saved it so that we returned for a third consecutive Summer?

Promised our Son we wouldn’t spend all day in the car and at overlooks. Promised to park the car and hike some trails. He agreed to return a third Summer based on that premise.

It changed everything.

Did he fall in love with Glacier?

No.

Was it less boring for him?

Definitely.

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