Category: Glacier National Park

Swiftcurrent Valley, day 7, mind

Winnie the Pooh quote
100% agree. i might have even invented this.

Everyday i get to wake up is my favorite.

Seems silly to think it and say it.

Seems even sillier to not think it and not say it.

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Swiftcurrent Valley, day 6, mind

mountain goat
Can’t recall ever seeing a Mountain Goat in Swiftcurrent Valley. Photo Sperry Chalet sunset.

To wake up so deep in and still have electricity, indoor plumbing, lobby wifi, a restaurant serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner, a room-door that locks, a camp store, a wonderful Motor Inn front porch, and a parking space at the end of the Earth’s rainbow…

Pro-level.

For a simple kid from Spring Grove, Pennsylvania, this literally feels like hitting the power-ball lottery.

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Swiftcurrent Valley, day 5, mind

mountain range silhouette
Looking West, about 15 miles East of Grinnell Point (seen here decently left of center…very center is Swiftcurrent Mountain and the Swiftcurrent Firetower). Mt Wilbur is tallest on right.

Swiftcurrent Valley’s remoteness and its towering mountains make me feel small on our large planet Earth.

And then i recenter and realize while Earth seems large, when you start accepting the science on how large the cosmos is, it’s an awakening.

Ever driven from Philly to Seattle? It took me a week the first time.

Now imagine traveling at light speed and it takes 100,000 light years to go end to end in our Milky Way.

And Our Milky Way galaxy (in my simplist understanding) is simply a flake of dust in the greater cosmos space.

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Swiftcurrent Valley, day 4, mind

mountain lake
Grinnell Point, center. To its right is Swiftcurrent Valley. To its left is Many Glacier Valley. Photo taken from Swiftcurrent Valley’s Fishercap Lake.

Swiftcurrent Valley features:

  1. Swiftcurrent Motor Inn and Cabins
  2. Swiftcurrent Pass Trail
  3. Iceberg Lake Trail
  4. Ptarmigan Tunnel Trail
  5. Fishercap Lake

Many Glacier Valley features:

  1. Many Glacier Hotel (Lodge)
  2. Grinnell Point
  3. Grinnell Glacier Trail
  4. Grinnell Lake Trail
  5. Piegan Pass Trail
  6. Cracker Lake Trail
  7. Swiftcurrent Lake

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Swiftcurrent Valley, day 3, mind

two hikers at Glacier trailhead
Could be 2022 with Jody Maberry. This was my test to tackle and overcome “Devil’s Elbow.” Btw, it was insanely insignificant.

What is challenging, perhaps mind-boggling, to believe?

The fact that 53 years have passed since my first visit to Swiftcurrent Motor Inn (and Glacier National Park).

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