Author: jeff noel

Retired Disney Institute Keynote Speaker and Prolific Blogger. Five daily, differently-themed personal blogs (about life's 5 big choices) on five interconnected sites.

Swiftcurrent Valley, day 6, home

flipchart poster with "so what" written on it
Swiftcurrent Valley. So what?

Swiftcurrent Valley.

So what?

So what, indeed!

God, are Cheryl and me ‘lucky’?

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This website is about our HOME. This is the fifth of five daily, differently-themed blog posts about: (1) mind, (2) body, (3) spirit, (4) work, (5) home. To return to Mid Life Celebration, the site about MIND, click here.

Swiftcurrent Valley, day 5, home

Mountain lake from hotel balcony
A photo like this from my Many Glacier Hotel room balcony perfectly illustrates how two mountain valleys can seem like one place.

Here’s quite possibly my understatement of 2026…

Life is mind-boggingly fascinating.

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Swiftcurrent Valley, day 4, home

family of three posing in the mountains
On Swiftcurrent Trail. The top of Swiftcurrent Glacier on horizon. There is a series of small lakes along the several miles of valley-level trail before the ascent up to Swiftcurrent Pass.

This valley was carved by glaciers.

This general, easy public access has only happened since 1910.

Before that, think “ jurassic park”.

Earth is roughly 4.5 billion years old.

We only gained public access to this space a century ago.

Try to wrap your head around that.

Ps. It’s impossible.

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Swiftcurrent Valley, day 3, home

base ball cap labeled Babb (Montana)
You have to drive through Babb, Montana (takes three seconds) to get to Swiftcurrent Valley.

My first visit to Glacier was Summer 1973.

i was an impressionable young teenager.

Our chartered cross-country bus carrying 40 Boy Scouts plus chaperones drove through Babb at dusk.

The only way to drive to Swiftcurrent Valley is through Babb.

Once you finish the 3-second drive through Babb, it’s another 13 miles until the road ends at Swiftcurrent Motor Inn.

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Swiftcurrent Valley, day 2, home

man with laptop in mountain chalet
Years ago. Granite Park Chalet. Back in the day when i hiked with a laptop because Granite had wifi. Ps. The Continental Divide over my shoulder.

Traveling without a laptop in 2025-26 is a new found freedom.

One that’s easy to imagine but challenging to live with.

Not only living with it, embracing it.

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This website is about our HOME. This is the fifth of five daily, differently-themed blog posts about: (1) mind, (2) body, (3) spirit, (4) work, (5) home. To return to Mid Life Celebration, the site about MIND, click here.