Category: Glacier National Park

Covid-19 quarantine

backyard campfire
Within 24 hours, a (cooking) fire. No place like home.

The threat of Covid-19, the removal of conveniences, no media distractions, and no entertainment – for 50 days – a once in a lifetime opportunity.

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Travel light

jeff noel at Motel sign
Glad i made it after cancelling 3 times (May 30, June 15, and July 15).
  • Loaded trunk last night before bed. Will carry two small day packs. Whatever food i don’t eat today before the flight, i will take on plane.
  • Leaving the room as i found it. Leaving a few items for the staff, on the bed’s corner.
  • Leaving the room as it was left for me.
  • L-R: Two external power bricks, book, batteries, meals i didn’t eat.
  • Gifted some other things this past week. These were the final items i decided not to pack.
  • If i could have a home near Glacier, it would be this one. It’s across the street from the Motel and only 1/4 mile from Glacier’s entrance.
  • Drove 2 miles to Lake McDonald one last time this morning.
  • Since 1973, as an impressionable 14 year old, it was love at first sight.
  • Not an ounce of wind.
Glacier National Park, October 4, 2020.

You can carry the most when you travel with the least.

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Thank you dear friend

mountain lake
October 3, 2020. Dawn.
  • Lake McDonald, you are so special.
  • Yo dude, give yourself some credit too. YOU are so special.
  • God gave you a special purpose – an insatiable desire to think, learn, grow, and teach.
  • You wisely chose three tools for your art: questions, paradox, and common sense.
  • The list of things i’m thankful for has no end.
  • Tip of the tip of the iceberg: To see. To hear. To smell. To taste. To touch.
  • To think. To move. To feel. To work. To dwell.
  • Tiny shadow to Earth. Big shadow to me.
  • McDonald Creek, as i drive East to Going-to-the-Sun Road’s other end.
Glacier National Park, October 3, 2020.

In everything, give thanks. Check!

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Hassle or opportunity?

traffic backup
Long lines often evoke hassle-factor emotions: impatience, lost time, lost opportunity. Waiting provides unexpected thinking, praying, and meditating time with a unique environment.
  • The backup at Glacier’s entrance is due to entering at 11:00 AM. Normally enter at 6:00 AM and encounter zero cars.
  • Starting later provides warmer temps, and fewer clothing layers.
  • The size belies the photo’s image.
  • In the midst of grand magnificence, a tiny insignificant shadow. How do you spot this? Why do you spot this?
  • The photo belies the shadow’s insignificance.
  • A glove just to add context to the smallness of the ground shadow.
  • A photo to offer comparison between grand and insignificant.
Glacier National Park, October 2, 2020.

When you change what you see, what you see changes. For example, do you have a hassle or an opportunity?

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Face it and learn

mountains
Afternoon drive to Logan Pass, October 1, 2020.
  • Heading back up to Oberlin.
  • Getting back on the horse, as they say.
  • Bright red Mountain Ash berries. Time to go home?
  • McDonald Creek.
  • Not even 24 hours have passed.
  • This is such an insignificant step across. The first time, wasn’t sure i could do it.
  • Made a cairn to be sure i wouldn’t make the same error twice.
  • Oberlin’s summit upper right. Oberlin has a long, slightly angled top, a couple hundred meters long.
Glacier National Park, October 1, 2020.

Learn to face your fears. Ignoring fear perpetuates fear.

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