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272 Glacier Days

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Iconic Lake McDonald. Iconic Bead Jar and Jack the Bear.

bead jar and teddy bear — On Lake McDonald, but from The Boat House, not Apgar Village.

A dramatic leap in experience courtesy of last year’s (2021) 62 days, pushing the total to 272 days-worth of Glacier experience.

Some new, leveling up hikes last year:

Ahern Peak
Piegan Pass area
Mt Siyeh scouting hikes
Sperry Chalet extended stay exploration
North Fork exploration, including Huckleberry Fire Tower and Bowman Lake

Note: Wrote this post before 2022 Summer season. Add 61 days from 2022 for 333 lifetime days.

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i know the way

A second look at the irrefutable boundary of two massively different Earthly phenomenon.

i know the way.

As part of my premiere duty to propagate the species (like the daises), the two foundational duties include:

Protect the young
Teach the young

Then get out of the way as you fade and they bloom.

Teach your young how to teach their young.

Show them the way.

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In the wild

Book on Bear attacks — It is the unexpected, close encounters that have the greatest odds for an attack. In Glacier, almost everywhere is an opportunity for an unexpected, close encounter.

In the wild, there is no time to fight battles that don’t help you survive, reproduce, and raise your young.

Anything not focused on those three is likely to take you down.

Animal instinct knows this.

Survival of the fittest.

Revenge is such a human-condition.

Not saying there are not exceptions in the wild. Just saying the wilderness is called the wild for a reason. Food chain and all that.

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Saved Glacier from flopping

mountains — Still up on Swiftcurrent Mountain at the Fire Tower. This photo is looking Southeast towards Logan Pass. Mt Gould dominates the skyline. Swiftcurrent Glacier in foreground. It would be 2018 before i summited here. Once you summit you never see Glacier the same way again. It is still a wish to bring Chapin and Cheryl here and to Mt Oberlin – both peaks sit at 8,200′.

Saved Glacier from flopping?

Yes.

Here’s what happened with Glacier…

First Summer, great.

Drove rental car along the 50-mile Sun Road and stopped at all the overlooks. Stopped at Lodges, had a meal, browsed the shops, sat in the lobby. Great adult activities. For a new teenager, iffy at best.

Chapin agreed to return a second Summer. Can’t recall why. Probably him feeling he had no choice.

He did not want to return a third Summer.

Asked him why and his honest answer, “It’s boring.”

This was the defining moment in the Glacier love story.

Made him a promise, if he’d return a third year, we would not drive around and do all the boring stuff.

He agreed (probably still thinking he had no choice).

In 2015, we began parking the car, getting out and staying out, and hiking a trail.

This changed everything.

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There’s something about Glacier

cartoon of mountain life — Cool t-shirt.

notes on a napkin — Notes while Jody Maberry and i had lunch at Two Dog Flats restaurant at Rising Sun Motor Inn. Was explaining my disdain for pontificators. Used the war historian versus soldier analogy. A war historian has never fought in a war, yet positions themself as an expert. To which Jody added…

There’s something about Glacier.

Perhaps it was the stunning and surprising imprint that Summer-of-1973 morning. Awakening and walking out the Swiftcurrent Motor Inn door and having my 14-year old mind blown by the sunrise igniting The Many Glacier Valley in a natural grandeur never seen before.

Final answer.

But wait, that was the just the catalyst.

There’s more to it.

Perhaps tomorrow.

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