Glacier – Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker

The wild places, mind

man next to glacier — Me at Sperry Glacier, July 2023. Photo credit to a fellow Sperry Chalet Guest. Sperry Chalet is deep inside Glacier National Park. So is its sister Chalet, Granite Park Chalet. The next two photos are from Granite Park Chalet’s night sky. You don’t sleep on the ground at Granite, but it’s close…no electricity, no heat, no running water, no wifi nor cell signal, pit toilet, and you hike 1/2 mile roundtrip for your drinking/cooking water.

night sky with stars — Granite Park Chalet’s main building casts a faint, nearly invisible, nighttime silhouette.

night sky with stars and Milky Way — Saw the Milky Way for the first time from Granite Park Chalet.

Happy present moment.

Why do you love the wild places?

From an early age, nature and all of Pennsylvania’s wild things, bugs, flowers, birds, creek critters, fish – all of it mesmerized me.

Heard Dan Fogelberg’s song, The Wild Places, yesterday and was once again inspired by the final verse:

“When you sleep on the ground
With the stars in your face
You can feel the full length
Of the beauty and grace
In the wild places man
Is an unwelcome guest
But it’s here than I’m found
And it’s here I feel blessed”

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Just one photo, mind

Today’s posts consist of one random, any year, photo from Glacier. This post is the exception so that i can let you know i didn’t forget to write something on the other four.

Also, there will likely be written captions, but maybe not.

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Short jaunt from Granite

Granite Park Chalet in Glacier National Park — Started from here because it looked decently easy from the Chalet.

9-second video: Getting here was more challenging than it looked from the Chalet. Not super difficult, just more challenging than it looked.

The Continental Divide is a remarkable geological formation.

To stand on it is humbling.

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Glacier dreaming

Love intentionally sorting through, or stumbling on, photos that inspire me to use them right then and there. Today’s posts are from a desktop folder i stumbled on.

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Granite in 2026?

high mountain chalet — i spy tiff me whittle eye, Cheryl.

Every year we attempt to secure at least one reservation in both Chalets.

Will it happen in 2026?

Not sure.

Why?

We are decently satiated from our numerous, and annual, visits to both.

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