Category: Glacier National Park

Glacier’s second coming

mountains
The sun rose without obstruction. Glacier’s Eastern border, where i spent that Summer night in 1973, is unobstructed by the Great Plains Western border. Photo: from Swiftcurrent Mountain looking East – you see the two borders meet here.

Glacier’s second (2013) coming began 40 years after the first 1973 visit.

Prior to 2013, here’s the Glacier visitation history (fairly uneventful):

  • jeff:
  • 1973, 1980
  • Cheryl & jeff
  • 1983, 1993, 2003

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Hikers with benefits

road leading to mountains
Going-to-the-Sun Road. Looking West towards Rising Sun.

Anticipating 2022’s Glacier National Park trips to be different than the previous two Covid-19 impacted Summers.

Or maybe there’s excitement knowing more about hiking in Glacier this coming Summer than ever before.

Probably a combo.

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32 miles roundtrip

Bicycling up a mountain
June 2019.

From Avalanche Creek to Logan Pass and back is 32 miles roundtrip. Roughly nine miles to the Loop from Avalanche Creek parking. From The Loop the next seven miles is a long steady climb to Logan Pass and The Continental Divide.

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Trails of Glacier

list of Glacier National Park hiking trails
84 trails listed on this t-shirt. Have had the privilege of hiking 41. Note: There are a bunch of trails not listed, including a couple i named because they aren’t considered a trail. For example: Cataract Mountain, Reynolds Catwalk, Shangrila, Ahern Peak, Mt Oberlin, Swiftcurrent Ridge, etc.

Glacier is:

  • One-million acres
  • 734 miles of trail
  • 300-400 Grizzlies
  • 40+- Wolverines
  • Three-million annual visitors
  • An official International Dark Sky Park
  • International Peace Park with Canada’s Waterton Lakes National Park
  • Wild
  • A good friend
  • Home

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Good surprises

Good surprises are, well, good.

And sometimes good surprises are great.

It’s easy to think each year in my 60s, will be a little slower than the previous year.

Fewer summits.

No new summits.

Less miles.

Fewer adventures.

Easy to let a closed mindset creep in…

Hey dude, you are not gonna be as physically vibrant this year as you have been in the past.

And then i remember last year’s (2021) final day at Logan Pass.

Remember how i wasn’t going to hike and then decided to do a ‘fitness test’ on Mt Oberlin….

Demolished my previous ascent record by eight minutes.

We shall see what the Universe has in store.

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