Category: Glacier National Park

Swiftcurrent Valley, day 3, mind

two hikers at Glacier trailhead
Could be 2022 with Jody Maberry. This was my test to tackle and overcome “Devil’s Elbow.” Btw, it was insanely insignificant.

What is challenging, perhaps mind-boggling, to believe?

The fact that 53 years have passed since my first visit to Swiftcurrent Motor Inn (and Glacier National Park).

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Swiftcurrent Valley, day 2, mind

Many Glacier Hotel
Glacier National Park (GNP). Yes, it’s this beautiful.

Swiftcurrent Valley is so close to Many Glacier Valley, i don’t even know why they are called separate things.

So here’s some insight from the above photo.

Many Glacier Hotel is in the foreground, and everything out of sight on the left is Many Glacier Valley. Everything (repeat, everything) in the photo above is the Swiftcurrent Valley, including the signature Mt Wilbur.

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Swiftcurrent Valley, day 1, mind

couple next to large stuffed bear
Kalispell, Montana airport, also known as Glacier Park International Airport. Summer 2019. An annual arrival tradition.

Wheels up 6:40 AM.

Glacier National Park.

Farewell tour 2026.

First week in Swiftcurrent Valley.

Note The Many Glacier Valley is a stone’s throw from Swiftcurrent Valley. Talk about awesome.

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July 23 and 24, reverse wildcard, mind

man Wearing two backpacks
A tradition that has seen it’s days…wearing two backpacks on back and front…’handsfree’ travel’.

Need to get two days of blogging in one day’s worth of writing

Why?

Remember the Wildcard Day about three weeks ago.

On that day, needed to write two days worth of blog posts on the same calendar day.

Why?

Some months have 30 days, or 31 days. And since i’m writing 60 days (not 61, nor 59, but exactly 60) in advance, the math sometimes makes me adjust so the day i write the post is the same number it publishes on two months in the future. Quirky, but i like it this way.

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Glacier checklists day 2, mind

Glacier National Park
Glacier National Park West entrance and Red Bus.
Glacier National Park entrance sign
Glacier National Park, St Mary (South-Eastern entrance).
Glacier Park Mountain Goat family
Glacier Park Mountain Goat family on Mt Oberlin trail, August 2018.

Glacier checklists, day two.

Two types:

  1. Organized and written down.
  2. Some intuitive, only in my head.

Searched my Apple Notes App for previous Glacier first-timer communications.

All my notes are relatively unhelpful. They were composed to offer help to friends in deciding whether or not to visit.

What i need to ‘recompose’ is what to expect once you have your plane ticket and hotel reservation.

The one ‘keeper’ list item that i copied and pasting here:

Expectations: Have fun. Stay safe. Mind-blowing hiking.

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