What is ridiculously easy can also be insanely difficult

Highland Trail hike
So beautiful on the first 400 meters of flat, wide trail.

 

Highland Trail hike
We are about to round a corner and i wasn’t sure if i’d have the courage to continue.

 

Highland Trail hike
It’s a big place, far from any hospital.

 

Highland Trail hike
It’s even scarier in real life.

 

A narrow trail is not a big deal on the ground, but move it up several hundred or a thousand feet and it can potential paralyze you with fear.

 

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Remain optimistic that these are good seeds you’re planting

St Mary Falls hike
We would not have been able to see St Mary Lake while hiking if not for last year’s fire.
St Mary Falls hike
Nor would we have seen the sky.
St Mary Falls hike
Nor the water.
St Mary Falls hike
We wouldn’t have seen across St Mary Lake either.
St Mary Falls hike
But there would have been occasional openings like this one.
St Mary Falls hike
Nature and fires started by lightning are synonymous.
St Mary Falls hike
St Mary Falls.
St Mary Falls hike
Downstream flowing to St Mary Lake.

St Mary Falls was nice and with just another .6-mile we’d get to enjoy Virginia Falls. The additional .6-hike was not part of the Ranger led program. We did it anyway. How could we not. The extra two-plus hour detour was within our budget.

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

Henry wasn’t a preacher

Red Bus Tour
Second stop…and so on for the next six hours, including lunch at Lake McDonald Lodge.

 

Red Bus Tour
Logan Pass and Clements Mountain (left) ahead.

 

Red Bus Tour driver Henry 2016
He drove a public transit bus in Manhattan.

 

Red Bus tour
We made many “Gopher stops”. Henry would pull over and we all popped up to stand and take photos, or just stare at the majesty.

 

Red Bus tour
When the passengers stand up in their seats, they look like a bunch of gophers.

 

Henry wasn’t a preacher yet his sermon was educational and helpful. His goal was to share the good news of Glacier National Park.

I sat in the back row two-thirds of the trip and the final third, i rode shotgun.

 

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This website is about our spiritual health. To leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s career health website, click here.

 

On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

 

Travel home to Walt Disney World

Eddie's Restaurant menu at Apgar
Breakfast started at 6:30am.

 

Funny Grizzly Bear tee shirt
Haha.

 

The Village Inn at Apgar
It was an excellent one night visit.

 

Eddie's restaurant at Apgar
Hearty breakfast for the long journey home.

 

Ariel view of Glacier National Park
Ariel view of Glacier National Park

 

Disneyland 60th anniversary Cast photo
Cheryl was at Disneyland yesterday for this.

 

What is it that we really want out of life? At the end of our searching we find ourselves back where we started. Right?

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Village Inn at Apgar

Hidden Lake Trail at Logan Pass
Plan B was Hidden Lake Trail, a much safer option.

 

Hidden Lake Trail at Logan Pass
From a distance.

 

Hidden Lake Trail at Logan Pass
He kept coming closer.

 

Hidden Lake Trail at Logan Pass
And closer.

 

Hidden Lake Trail at Logan Pass
Unusually close.

 

Hidden Lake Trail at Logan Pass
Hidden Lake from the overlook.

 

Hidden Lake Trail at Logan Pass
Hiking down to hidden lake was prohibited because of Grizzly activity.

 

Hidden Lake Trail at Logan Pass
On the return route to Logan Pass.

 

Hidden Lake Trail at Logan Pass
Mom, Dad, two adolescents, and two kids (babies).

 

In the wild places it’s easy to tune into a higher power.

Why?

Because there is little else to do.

While we can rely on urban nature to refresh us, there is something inexplicable about the wild.

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