Tag: Glacier

Ten miles flew by

Pixar Soul toys by hiking trail sign
Easy 10-miler. Flat. Great company. New. 

Since 1973, never hiked McDonald Creek trail. Until yesterday. A brand new experience is always a surprising adventure. 

While every hike is an adventure and fun, new adds the surprise-factor. 

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Balanced nutrition

Dinner plate with food
How would you eat if you were an athlete training at a high level? Yesterday’s Glacier dinner. Great meals are hard to come by here.

You are what you eat. 

Healthy? 

Unhealthy?

In between?

Lean overwhelmingly to the irrefutably correct side. 

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Three hour down hill walk

Group of paper bag lunches on table
Bags always labeled with reservation name and party size (number of lunches inside the bag)..
  • Our hike is 6.5 miles and 3,300’ elevation descent through this drainage basin. Ten-mile long Lake McDonald shrouded in a cloud blanket (center horizon).
  • Somewhere near halfway down. 
  • Made it through the raising cloud. 
  • Lake McDonald Lodge provided parking during our 4-day, 3-night Chalet experience. This is where we sat to enjoy our bagged lunch. 
  • View from lunch spot. 
  • Context: We sat next to this without noticing for 30 minutes. And then it happened – “Wow!”
  • Bags always labeled with reservation name and party size, but probably rarely have Cinderella Castle drawn on them. Or the letter O made into a Mickey Mouse symbol.
Sperry Chalet Day 3 with Cheryl.

Chronic feet challenges but great knees. Who doesn’t love a 6.5-mile, 3,300’ downhill hike wearing two backpacks?

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Decisions drive habits

Appple Watch fitness screen
Spent 5.5 inspiring hours on the trail. 
  • First glimpse of what’s ahead. Catch the waterfall in the middle?
  • Sunlight was rare yesterday. But when it it did peek through, this.
  • Lake Ellen Wilson with Gunsight Pass at the low saddle. This is a different waterfall.
  • Falls below Gunight Pass.
  • Group hike for about 1.5 miles. Then just the two of us.
  • Saw roughly a dozen mountain goats. 
Sperry Chalet Day 2, Lake Ellen Wilson hike.

Physical priorities drive decisions and decisions drive physical habits.

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Do it while you can

Mountain Chalet dining hall
Breakfast. September 11, 2021. Yesterday. 
Pixar Soul toys next to woman at table
Tap into your deepest Soul.
11-second video. Context.

Surreal how easily we adapted to the hand we were dealt. Suddenly, the opportunity to spend the day sitting around became inviting. We also reflected on our physical ability to easily hike to Sperry Chalet.

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