Day 6 East Glacier, mind

16-second video: Sinopah Mountain from South Shore trail.
Late start, 8:45am.

Today is a ‘rest day’.

Over-focusing on rest.

Why, after only two hiking days?

The normal season opener hike is 4 miles round-trip and only 1600’ elevation gain and loss.

To avoid 3+ hours of round-trip drive time to get to Oberlin, i stayed local and had a 30-minute round-trip drive time. However, opening day hike was 8 miles and 2500’ elevation gain and descent.

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Day 5 East Glacier, mind

Red flower
Until recently (maybe 2022), it was called Indian Paintbrush. Now it’s just Paintbrush.
Red flowers
A bit more context.
Apple Watch fitness app screenshot
Yesterday’s Scenic Point hike. Today’s hike is Upper Two Medicine Lake hike.

Yesterday, even though starting the day with a sleep deficit, i knew it was a fail-safe hike choice.

Why?

Have done it at least three times before. Once solo. Once with Chapin. Once with Cheryl.

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Day 4 East Glacier, mind

Overturned car on highway
First day last year. Driving Highway 2 to East Glacier on the way to SwiftCurrent Valley.

.think .differently

Emotion trumps everything.

Reminds me i’m not offering (selling?) world-class customer service architecture. Even though it seems so.

What then?

Reminds me i’m offering (selling?) world-class hope architecture. Even though it doesn’t seem so.

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Day 3 East Glacier, mind

Person standing in front of a stonewall
Decent accolades across the top.

Depart home at 6:30am.

Wheels-up at 10:00am.

On to Denver with a generous layover, thankfully.

Then to Kalispell.

Secure the Mini Van.

Visit the storage unit to grab a few things.

Drive 90-ish minutes to East Glacier.

Check in two days ‘late’.

(Thus making day three the third paid Glacier day, but the first day physically with feet on the ground. Just gonna roll with it.)

Have dinner and a beer at the lobby lounge.

Enjoy a mountain sleep.

Note: Paid for the previous two nights because i was past the refundable cancellation window. And, it helped ensure i wouldn’t lose the room, which is reserved for a week.

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Day 2 East Glacier, mind

Disney parking lot
HeiHei (hey-hey) is a fun name for a Disney parking lot section.
11-second video: Family had plans to go to Epcot after dropping me at the airport yesterday. Due to the CloudStrike induced cancellation, i got to go to Epcot too. Cheryl and i enjoyed Spaceship Earth on our way out to HeiHei 107.

One of the most important lessons i learned decades ago is that it’s not what happens to us, it’s how we respond to what happens to us.

This may have been growth mindset’s acorn, before anybody knew what growth mindset was.

These days, my growth mindset is a mighty Oak.

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