Glacier – Page 57 – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

What’s it like Jeff?

27-second video: What’s it like hiking in Glacier? Sometimes it’s like this. Assuming this animal trail leads potentially to the summit at 9,200′.

In real time, i’d have flown to Glacier a few days ago to begin the June 2022 first visit. Writing this, however, from our back porch at Walt Disney World. Stumbled upon the videos and the rest as they say is (blogging) history.

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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.

A hidden what?

21-second video: On the saddle between two 9,200’ peaks, a hidden Mickey.

Surprise and delight.

Check.

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Trail etiquette

Gunsight Mountain, left. Edwards Mountain, right.

Trail etiquette:

Pack it in, pack it out
Always hydrate (drink a lot) before hitting trail
Carry more water than you think you’ll need
Ascending hikers have right of way
Step aside if a faster hiker(s) catches us
On flat trail with hikers approaching from the opposite direction, it’s always nice to be the first to step aside
Never approach wildlife
Please speak up if you want to stop for a moment (for any reason…water, photo, snack, delayer, add a layer, ask a question about something you see, etc)

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Organize to maximize

Was afraid of falling just from watching this video on a laptop, sitting at my home office desk.

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Thanksgiving Day, 2013

19-second video: For about 10 seconds in the very center, you can see the Grizzly moving slowly. Highline Trail and Going-to-the-Sun Road also clearly visible.

In 1979 i made a promise to write a book to my kids.

In 2009, 30 years later, a career wakeup call was a painful reminder the first sentence had yet to be written.

Additionally, there was only one child to write to, not several.

Only my Son and i knew the status:

Thirty years to write the first sentence
Two more years to write the book
Two more years to get the courage to publish

Had it published on Amazon in October 2013, knowing the official reveal to Cheryl with a physical copy would purposefully happen on Thanksgiving (2013) morning.

She had heard me talk so much about it, but never saw any tangible result. She thought i silently abandoned it.

Cheryl was shocked to hold a copy in her hands.

Was filled with gratitude – thanksgiving – that i finally did what i said i was gonna do.

Thanksgiving, on multiple levels, was the perfect day to tell Cheryl, and the world.

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