Category: Glacier National Park

Got time?

Mountain
Intentionally met later, at noon, for the day to get warmer. Heading to Pollock, 9,200’.
  • Wildlife at the start is always great karma.
  • The photos belie the steepness.
  • Certain rocks yield directional clues.
  • First look from this stunning location.
  • Breathtaking is an understatement.
  • Zooming in on Mount Reynolds. Soloed Reynolds a week ago.
  • Capturing Piegan Mountain in the background.
Pollock Mountain hike September 23, 2020.

May each generation get a little better at becoming personally responsible for being personally vibrant.

dad

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Mentally solid

mountain rocks
The many rocks of Glacier.

None of us can predict our future. All of us can decide to never mentally give up.

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The good enemy

mountains
Today’s Piegan Mountain hike is a first for me in the 47 years since visit number one in 1973.
  • Started at Lunch Creek, just East of Logan Pass. Mt Reynolds in center-right horizon. Heavy Runner Mountain is big, dark image to Reynold’s left.
  • This place is so much bigger than the photos can communicate.
  • Zooming out a little farther.
  • He was going to do the easiest and most popular Glacier hike – Hidden Lake Trail. Told Matt, a Wisconsin paramedic and Glacier rookie, if he hiked with me and felt uncomfortable, i’d hike back down with him.
  • Matt and i made it to the Pollock-Piegan saddle. Fierce, cold winds ended our journey here. Piegan Mountain (right), Mt Siyeh (left).
Pollock-Piegan Saddle September 21, 2020.

Good is the enemy of great. For example do you want good personal vibrancy or great personal vibrancy?

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Subtract 10 degrees

Lake McDonald Lodge front desk iconic message board.
Woke up to rain and cold. Allergic to hiking in the rain. Allergic to cold too. Take West Glacier, 3,100′, temps and subtract another 10 degrees for Logan Pass, 6,600′, temps.

Playing catch up places the focus on a future state and not on the present state. Catch-up work is for a day that no longer exists.

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Pausing from Glacier quotes

mountain sunrise
Intentional sunrise arrival. As we reach September 19, sunrise is early enough to pick the end parking space. Covid has made Logan Pass exceptionally busy this year.

Pausing the normal “quotes” today.

Why?

Feels right.

Today’s photos are a reminder that on occasional days our plans are completely changed at a moment’s notice.

With Covid-19, the same can be said for an occasional year.

Didn’t intend to not work for the entire year, yet here we are.

Forced change often pushes us to new and better things we would never initiate on our own.

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