Can you afford to arrange such a unique work experience?

Chief mountain
The horizon from the two-lane road in the middle of nowhere Montana in 2017. Cheif Mountain on the right horizon.

 

Chief mountain
Pull the car over, get out, snap a photo, using about half of iPhone’s zoom feature.

 

Chief mountain
Zoom in all the way. Not bad for a phone camera.

 

Can you afford to arrange such a unique work experience?

Trick question.

Can you afford to not do it?

 

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Glacier National Park is a good friend

Glacier National Park snow plowing
Over in Two Medicine, near the town of East Glacier. Photo from May 3, 2018.

 

Glacier National Park snow plowing
Closeup of snow plowing on Going to the Sun Road. Easy to see one of the two snow plows. The second one more challenging…it’s left-middle-top.

 

Glacier National Park snow plowing
Context in the vastness. two snow plows just past The Loop switchback. McDonald Creek is running full in bottom left corner.

 

The thought of finishing my impossible book writing goal in Glacier National Park is surreal.

Seven.

Disney.

Business.

Books.

Glacier.

National.

Park.

One million acres.

734 miles of trail.

300 grizzlies.

Trying not to let the anticipation consume me.

 

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Soon and very soon, we are going to…

Glacier National Park trail
Look closely. Center, a solitary Big Horn Sheep, still in his overnight resting spot.

 

solitude hiker
Grinnell Glacier Overlook is empty except for the photographer (me) and this guy (my college buddy Howard).

 

The Loop Trail
There’s a four-mile descent from Granite Park Chalet that cuts through an area once covered with trees – burned from a massive forest fire.

 

Soon and very soon, we are going to…

Glacier National Park.

Sample itinerary for trip number four (of five) this Summer.

Sat: Arrive 1pm, grocery stop, check-in Apgar Village Lodge Cabin, early dinner next door, hour-drive to Logan Pass, 3-mile hike Hidden Lake Trail, return to Apgar.

Sun: 6am scenic sunrise drive 2.5 hours on Going-to-theSun Road to Many Glacier Hotel (breakfast in cabin or car), two boat shuttles to trail head, hike Grinnell Glacier Trail, lunch there, hike down for 515pm boat shuttle back, dinner at Many Glacier or Rising Sun, drive to Apgar cabin.

Mon: 6am 1-hour drive to park at Logan Pass, hike Highline Trail 7 miles, lunch on trail, checkin at Granite Park Chalet, dinner, relax and enjoy.

Tues: breakfast at Granite, 7am-ish sunrise hike to Grinnell Glacier Overlook, lunch there, return to Granite whenever, dinner at Granite, relax & enjoy.

Wed: breakfast at Granite, hike to Swiftcurrent Pass and/or Swiftcurrent lookout (highest lookout in GNP at 8,400′), lunch there, hike back whenever, dinner at Granite, relax & enjoy.

Thur: breakfast at Granite, relax & enjoy, optional hike to Overlook or Lookout, lunch wherever, checkout, hike back to Logan Pass or hike down to The Loop (4 miles), shuttle to Pass, eventually drive 1-hour back down to Apgar, dinner at Eddies or Cabin, ice cream at Eddies, relax & enjoy.

Fri: Weather backup day for Sun itinerary (above), or optionl repeat of Sunday, or 6am 1-hour drive to Logan Pass, Mt Oberlin Trail  2.1 miles, 767’ gain, summit at 8180’, 360 views.

Sat: 6am 1 hour drive to Logan Pass, hike 7 miles Highline Trail to Granite Park Chalet (lunch on trail), checkin, relax & enjoy, dinner at Granite.

Sun: breakfast at Granite, morning open, hike back to Logan Pass, or down to The Loop & shuttle up to Pass for car. Hang at Pass, drive 1 hour back to Apgar, dinner in Cabin or Eddies, relax & enjoy.

Mon: 315am drive 45 mins to airport, catch 6 or 7am flight  home.

 

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Give a month at least to this precious reserve

Glacier National Park
Glacier National Park’s lasting impression on John Muir (known as the Father of America’s National Parks) 125 years ago.

 

Give a month at least to this precious reserve. The time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will indefinitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal. Nevermore will time seem short or long, and cares will never again fall heavily on you, but gently and kindly as gifts from heaven. – John Muir, on his first visit to Glacier National Park in the early 1890s

 

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The first “sober” New Years Eve happened in 2001

Highline Trail
The best hike of my entire life happened August 31, 2016 with Dave Weir – Highline Trail in Glacier National Park. It happened 3 more times in 2017 on the same trail – with Family July 31, Howard Doran August 30, and solo September 29…pictured here. 
Highline Trail
September 29, 2017 the trail was deserted.
Orlando Disney Keynote Speakers
Smiling because i’m free, yet knowing the devil is always wanting a piece of me,
Highline Trail
Fall colors from shrubs and trees, not flowers, this time of year.
Highline Trail
Remnant smoke from the 2017 Sprague fire.

The first “sober” New Years Eve happened in 2001.

i intentionally picked December 30 to be my final drinking day, so that New Years Eve (the biggest drinking day in the world) would be the beginning of my resolve.

New Years Day is a terrible day to begin transformational change – it’s so unreliable.

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