Category: Glacier National Park

Slow and fast

Disney Keynote speaker Jeff Noel at National Park
Four years ago, 2020. Remember Covid-19?

Can recall 10 months ago, after two emergency retina-repair surgeries that next Summer (2024, now), that it would take forever to return to Glacier.

Now, departure is a week away and i cannot believe how the time has arrived “so quickly’.

Seems that slow and fast are siblings.

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Glacier panic

Two adults at the mountains
Hoping to get Cheryl up here to this exact spot in a few weeks. Photo: 2017?

Started the morning triple checking my calendar and the lodging website. What’s on my calendar and what’s on the website should match.

Guess what?

They don’t.

Panic attack.

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Oasis of quiet, mentally

14-second video from Steve Wahlberg.
man in the mountains
Bishops Cap doesn’t look like Bishops Cap from here. In this photo i am on my hands and knees at the edge of a 2,000’ sheer cliff.

Be ready to go before it’s time to go.

dad

American adults tend to wait until the last minute.

This habit manifests itself in everything.

Tell me it isn’t so.

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Mental couch potato

Apple Watch in the mountains
8:20AM start.
three people at a trailhead sign
Stacy and Steve have taken me to the top of Reynolds, Pollock, and today Bishops Cap, (via Pollock Mountain’s summit). All three are 9,200’+-.
hikers in the mountains
We gain 2,800′ elevation in the first two miles, from Lunch Creek (6,400′) to Pollock’s summit at 9,200′.
hikers in the mountains
Short break as Stacy and Steve put on their climbing helmets.
mountainside looking up
This is a time-consuming section. No trail. Ton of loose rock. Not particularly favorable for scrambling.

Vibrancy has few peers.

dad

Turning theory and common sense into actualized, habitual behavior places you in a psychological wilderness.

You will hike alone, unless you find a life partner to walk with you.

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Bishops Cap is beyond me

unique mountain ridge formation
From just the right angle, it’s easy to see how Bishops Cap got it’s name.

It’s only impossible until you do it the first time.

dad

Going back to see Dr. Kumar tomorrow. Second followup exam since emergency Retina surgery nearly two weeks ago.

Patience is a virtue.

The human body is a miracle.

Still blind.

The gas bubble is almost gone though.

Here’s the challenge/opportunity…

If there was a guaranteed return to post surgery eyesight, patience has a designated purpose.

However, there isn’t a guarantee for any eye surgery (or any surgery).

The devil is tempting me to focus on the no guarantee part of the equation.

Perhaps it’s the anxiousness in still hoping to return to Glacier for a few weeks.

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