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Glacier checklists, day two.

1. Plan on two rest days for our week together. Weather often drives when to not hike (rest).
2. Rest days are open, and can include a scenic drive or chill at Lodge, or both.
3. East Glacier, and Glacier Park Lodge, is more remote from the signature 50-mile Going-to-the-Sun Road. And even further from Logan Pass and Many Glacier/Swiftcurrent Valley (like easily a 90-minute one-way drive without stops.
4. There is a small lobby cafe-coffee-ice cream-sundries shop.
5. The tiny (for real tiny) town of East Glacier has a small country store.
6. The nearby town of Browning (the epicenter for the Blackfeet Nation) has two grocery stores and a small hospital, is a 30-minute drive one way.

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We’re staying at Glacier Park Lodge. We will have an insanely epic experience.

i simply have to mesh two entirely different things:

1. Deconstruct what we would normally do on our third consecutive week of high-mountain hiking (above 6,000′), on our final extended Glacier visit.
2. Reconstruct what Glacier acclimated hikers (us) need to modify to enable what first-time, sea-level, Glacier visitors need so they do not overdo it. While simultaneously not leaving me feeling held back from what i would normally do if it was just Cheryl and me – on our farewell experience.

We could drive around, like a tour guide, and see all the sights.

A BFO, i do not want to end our deeply personal Glacier relationship like we started with Chapin in 2013 – driving around and stopping at the assorted scenic pullover lookouts.

Bottomline, i want to move (hike) like i (we) mean it. We are still physically capable.

If this is our last chance, i want to suck the marrow out of it.

So you can see the challenge, the opportunity.

Looking forward to being enlightened to a wonderful win-win solution.

Ps. i am open to, and hopeful for stumbling on a remarkable idea that takes this current situation to a glorious experience for all of us.

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