Category: Glacier National Park

Hey Universe, thanks

Heading to Haystack Butte.
  • Trailhead at 7:30AM. Impressive. An hour drive to Logan Pass parking lot and 20 minutes to get organized and walk to trailhead….31 degrees to start.
  • Garden Wall and sunrise, again. Thank you.
  • Haystack Butte gently enters from the left. The Garden Wall (and Mt Gould) soar to 9,500′.
  • Clements Mountain is always brimming with gratitude.
  • Oberlin. Sunrise. Two failed summit attempts. We admire it from Highline Trail.
  • Glacier’s Western border, and the Rockies are a stone’s throw from Canada.
  • Zooming in. How can you not?
Glacier National Park.

Three questions for the Shaman: Who am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going?

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Excellence can not stand alone

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September temps in Glacier.
  • Cold is cold.
  • Logan Pass, Pollock Mountain (the lowest end)
  • Ahkil, San Franciso. Djuan, Walt Disney World.
  • New Balance running shoes – the broken-in pair with decent tread.
  • High altitude is in a different temperature zone.
  • Just a moment in time.
  • The stillness and quietness of mountain snow is extraordinary.
  • Gazing, thinking, dreaming, or all three?
  • Another Hidden Mickey.
  • Just. Cool.
  • Deeper snow on the ground than yesterday. Clearer skies than yesterday. Less wind too.
Glacier National Park.

Real excellence is balanced excellence. Mind, body, spirit, work, home. Seriously, how could it be anything else?

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Snow way it’s snowing

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Rental car dashboard snapshot as we park at Logan Pass. We left Motel at 7:30 AM, arrived 75 mins later.
Short video. Stopped at temporary red light for mountain road refurbishment. Jimmy Buffett song on the drive to Logan Pass. Our first day.
  • Ahkil, center, is a first-timer. Djuan is back for third straight year.
  • We knew there’d be some snow, yet hoped it wouldn’t be enough to stop us.
  • Moving water in the process of freezing is a sure sign September temperatures are way below normal.
  • All around us, clouds are gathering and growing.
  • Breathtaking sounds and sights.
  • Huge fan of water features. Generally roads are closed and these Logan Pass conditions are never seen first hand.
  • We are a bit dazed and confused at the dramatic morning weather.
  • And, brief moments of extraordinary, fleeting images.
  • i questioned whether every upper-layer i brought (8 total), all three pant-layers, and three pairs of socks will be enough. It was.
  • Hidden Mickey. Cool. Rare.
  • i led our expedition behind this rock wall in hopes of a wind-break while we evaluated the weather. Mountains inhibit your ability to see what’s coming. You read the passing clouds for clues – density, moisture, wind, etc.
Mt Oberlin summit attempt in snow, September 26, 2020.

Habits happen by design and by default. By design is hard. By default is easy. Be great at hard work and lousy at easy work.

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Habitual thinking

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Overnight snow, cold, and clouds.
  • Hiking at elevation is cold, windy, and foggy on days like this.
  • Today is a good day to improvise from hiking.
  • Like powered sugar, the mountains have been dusted…September 25.
  • A week after we left Rising Sun (in the fire’s path), this fire began.
  • Without the fire, you would never see certain views – perhaps once in a lifetime views.
  • Fire is as old as time.
  • Glacier’s National Park Service general philosophy is to only fight fires humans start.
  • Generally, naturally occurring fires are left to burn. Only physical property is protected intentionally.
  • Some plants depend on fire for propagation.
Driving Sun Road, September 25, 2020.

Positive begets positive. Negative begets negative. Birds of a feather flock together.

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Crisis waste

rainbow in pine forest

Never waste a crisis. Every situation, properly perceived, is an opportunity.

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