Category: Glacier National Park

GNP Day 2, mentally

Mountain road traffic
530am…day 2…Apgar, looking East.
Mountain Road traffic
Looking West.
Parking lot in the mountains
L-R: Reynolds, grey Mini Van rental.
Parking lot in the mountains
Mid-July, 8am…still half a parking lot available. Remarkable.
Parking lot in the mountains
So weird to see this many available spaces.

Day 2 made a beeline to Logan Pass. Logan Pass webcams have been out for months. So, first reconnaissance to understand the parking Iot algorithm. 

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GNP Day 1, mentally

Two small backpacks on floor
Packed a week ago. Brown bag is from 2021’s farewell from Sperry Chalet employee, Avery. Bag held our hike-out lunch.
Red backpack on floor
This year’s 2022 Pixar films: Mei Mei from Turning Red, plus Buzz Lightyear and Sox from Lightyear.
Man sitting in first class airplane seat
A sleeper seat is always welcome, even when not sleepy.

Heading to GNP.

Without flight delays, the day looks like this:

Wheels up 8:30 AM.

One hour layover in Denver.

Land 1:35 PM.

Car rental.

Food/supplies stop.

Check in.

Unpack, setup room for a couple days.

Dinner.

Lake McDonald.

Sleep.

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‘Twas the night before, mentally

10-second video: March 15, 2020…nearly three years ago Magic Kingdom (and all Walt Disney World Parks) shut down. i biked to Magic Kingdom to participate in an historical event.
ABC Evening News screenshot, March 15, 2020. We had no idea what was coming. Note that on March 15, Covid was tucked away until two minutes left in the broadcast. Why? Not even close to a headline item.

‘Twas the night before, mentally…GNP…

See you tomorrow.

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Changing it changes it

Changing it changes it.

Huh?

Like the video says, change what you see and what you see changes.

Note: This video (and two others in today’s five posts) is spontaneous, unscripted, rough. Descending Piegan Mountain and hit the saddle which is a long (half mile?) flat portion at 8,000′. There’s still a tricky descent through a long crevasse-like chute which concerns me. Reveling in the solo-summit moment and thinking grand thoughts. Hit record on the iPhone, because, why not?

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Mount Siyeh closeup

21-second 2020 video: Mount Siyeh and other Logan Pass mountains.
Disney toys in the mountains
2020 marked Pixar’s Onward release and Disney+ 2019-2020 Mandalorian series.

Past couple days reviewing 2020’s Piegan Mountain’s solo summit inspired me to do a deep dive on all most of the videos.

This serendipitous activity inspires public sharing of videos otherwise kept private.

Why kept private?

Sheer volume.

So you’re seeing some of the best.

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