Category: Glacier National Park

Intentional thoughts

wooded road at sunrise
Fill your morning with good and decent thoughts and you fill your day with the same.

Where your thinking defaults to is where your life defaults to.

dad

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Limited time offer

Every Guest entering Glacier National Park passes this sign.
  • Late start at 2:00 PM. On purpose for parking and warmth.
  • At 3:40 PM, it’s late to be only this far on the trail. My goal, however, is only to do a little reconnaissance for the Mt Siyeh summit route.
  • Only a few hundred meters ahead is the unmarked climber’s trailhead for Mt Siyeh summit. Not looking to climb it, just to become familiar with the side trail.
  • Three Grizzlies were spotted and all three were said to be in the area i wanted to go. Spooked, i headed back down the trail until i met a rare couple hiking to Siyeh Pass.
  • Tom and Julia are from Italy and didn’t mind if i hiked with them. i didn’t take the climber’s trail to the left. Too scared.
Siyeh Pass Trail.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Steve Jobs

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It won’t be popular

Hiking trail sign in mountains
Later start than normal for two reasons: 1. Parking availability is not frenzied. 2. Warmer start time.
  • This trailhead diverges to some incredible options.
  • Mt. Siyeh, Glacier’s 5th tallest peak and one of only 6 in the Park over 10,000′.
  • Looking back towards trailhead. Mt Jackson (10,056′) center horizon, Glacier’s 4th tallest peak.
  • Piegan Glacier on Piegan Mountain, 9,220′.
  • Western States wildfire haze. No fires in Glacier this year.
  • Pollock Mountain, 9,190′.
  • Context for Piegan Mountain and Piegan Glacier.
Piegan Trail, September 16, 2020.

Originally, back in 2008, used daily blogging as book writing practice. Thought it would make me famous because the writing eventually became prolific. Famous never happened. Here’s the insight – what is popular is rarely transformational. While daily self-reflection is not popular in a busy world, 12 years later it remains worth my effort.

dad

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Happy New Day

jeff noel in the mountains
Mt Oberlin is said to be Glacier’s easiest summit. At 8,200′ it’s only 4 miles roundtrip and only 1,600′ elevation gain.
Panorama highlighting the wildfire haze, while ascending Oberlin.
jeff noel in the mountains
Mt Oberlin summit. Sept 15, 2020.
Changing what you see is accomplished multiple ways. You do not need to change your location.

You can resolve to do whatever you want, whenever you want. You do not need to wait for a new year.

dad

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Happy New Day 2021

January 1, 2002 would become my third time going two consecutive days without drinking. But this time was different; not drinking on New Year’s Eve 2001 was a mental triumph – a transformational catalyst.

dad

No pictures today.

Just a blank canvas.

Why?

Serendipitously, literally no photos were taken in Glacier National Park this day – day 31 of a 50-day Summer 2020 work experiment.

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