Access is a crap shoot

Bicycle next to mountain snow pack
Zoom in for a surprise snow-carved message.

Going-to-the-Sun Road opened June 13, 2023.

Guess who wasn’t there.

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Yes, we wanna go to Glacier

mountains
Cataract Mountain (left) and Mt Gould (right).

Invitations: Whomever you think might want to go, you need to give them time to consider expenses versus regrets. A year in advance is not too soon to ask.

Coordinating: Coordinating airline arrivals, departures, cabin logistics, transportation, meals, etc., is best done in advance.

Fitness: Most of my friends are flat-landers. To prepare, simply walk two to 10 miles a day, four or five days a week. Take stairs whenever you get the chance. When i arrive in mid-July, it takes two weeks to get decently acclimated. Two months into it, imma lean, mean hiking machine.

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Going to Glacier, physically

group of nine at airport
Record setting year with nine hikers in our group.

Let’s go through some “inconvenient” logistics.

Planning:

Expectations:

Lodging:

Air:

Car:

Timing:

Invitations:

Coordinating:

Fitness:

Weather:

Clothes:

Shoes:

Wifi:

Cell signal:

Traffic:

Ticketed entry:

Confirmations on all of the above.

Arrival Day: pre-send, timing, car, grocery, route, check-in, stops, dinner, sunset.

All days: Breakfast, cabin departure, trail selection, trailhead arrival, lunch, hike duration, daypack essentials, safety, hike breaks, hiking etiquette, hike duration, dinner options, sunset options, review next day agenda.

Weather:

Open day for weather:

Departure day:

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Going to the Sun

Bicyclist on a Mountain Road
McDonald Creek is swollen in June. Before the Pass opens, GTTSR is deserted.

Sometimes i wonder how old i will be before biking Going-to-the-Sun Road (GTTSR) is not an option.

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Continental Divide attitude

Tall mountain
Reynolds Mountain is part of the Continental Divide.

This post’s title is a reversal from the previous post’s observation.

Put a hyphen across the upper part of the “l” and we are back to a dramatically different word meaning.

Here’s what i love about these two posts, i’m playing out an idea from the t-shirt that still doesn’t have a known conclusion (to me) two posts in.

It’s fun to run with an idea that you think will work out but you can’t see the conclusion at the moment.

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