Category: Glacier National Park

How do you repay?

mountains
Garden Wall, foreground. Haystack Butte 7,500′, left.
  • Heading down to the Great Cleft.
  • The Great Cleft entrance is the thin opening, center photo.
  • Great Cleft entrance easily visible now.
  • Zooming out a bit.
  • Zooming out for even more context. Photos help continue the breathtaking experience that is almost overwhelming – over-stimulating.
  • Love that Stacy and Steve specifically retired here to be active year round. They ski, bike, golf.
  • From the top of the Great Cleft looking across to Logan Pass.
  • Hidden Lake Trail is Glacier’s most popular partly because of the boardwalk trail.
  • Looking back at Pollock on our descent.
  • Once again, photos belie the size, height, steepness.
  • You have to go over Pollock’s summit to get to Bishop’s Cap.
  • Zooming out, Pollock’s summit looks so small.
  • The replacement pair of broken-in running shoes, and Baby Yoda, arrived today.
Pollock Mountain summit with the Wahlberg’s. Sept 23, 2020.

You repay the Universe by being a good and decent citizen, a steward, student, and teacher.

dad

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Home-life solid

mountain rocks
i love Glacier’s rock diversity.

None of us can predict our future. All of us can decide to never give up being organized at home.

dad

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Extraordinarily passive

jeff noel looking contemplative in mountains
Sitting creekside is so passive i rarely do it. The antithesis of summiting a mountain.
mountain road
Late September, 5:00 PM, standing in the middle of the road is a non-event.

Changing what you see can be as simple as sitting quietly in a place you pass everyday, but rarely stop to sit and do nothing.

dad

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Too close to see it

Using today to visit Lake McDonald Lodge, do a work project, and catch up on work/administrative tasks. This is a short video, by the way.

Habits at home shape your life. Daily home-life habits trap you or free you.

dad

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A different trinity

thank you card
Blank, all-purpose card.
gift card written thank you notes
Blank card destined to be a thank you card.

Being without Family for the first time in seven years, and being onsite for seven consecutive weeks, the sheer volume – 9,000 photos/videos – is overwhelming.

Which brings us back to where we started.

A past yet recent event is being written about today and won’t post for a couple months.

  1. There’s the past moment which was wonderful as the day unfolded in real time.
  2. There’s today – recalling and writing about the past moment – which is wonderful.
  3. There’s the future, which is expected to be wonderful when this post is read as a public post.

It’s self-reflection, being present, and future hope – all at the same time.

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