Tag: Hope

Planned freedom, body

mountains and lake
Swiftcurrent Vally. Looking East in this photo, The Great Plains are just over the mountain horizon. This photo location is literally on the Continental Divide.

Planned freedom is a concept anyone can take in any direction.

To me, planned freedom is investing in getting healthy and staying healthy. For a lifetime.

You’ll know physical freedom from your strength, stamina, flexibility, core, nutrition, rest, and motivation.

Note: The freedom you know, and experience, is proportional to the freedom you planned for.

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Teach hope, body

mountains
From our Cabin’s back deck. Sunset. You can teach others to watch sunsets simply by your ritual of watching many of them yourself.

Teach hope…

Top priority…

Paramount…

Honor the temple housing everything keeping you alive.

Move, fuel, rest.

Do those three basics brilliantly.

  1. Move
  2. Fuel
  3. Rest

Even when society, at nearly every turn, tempts you not to.

In the absence of a relative or close friend who models this, become the model for those you love.

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Harvest hope, body

mountains
From our cabin deck. For real. Sunset.

Hope.

Yes.

Still got it?

Yes.

For what?

Hope to be able to run again, without chronic foot pain.

It’s been years, probably closer to 10 than five.

Yes, and…

Restarted three weeks ago.

Note: Hope has a relative, patience.

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Compounded hope, body

mountains
Favorite summit. In the ethos of the Continental Divide (which is seen to the right as it extends north to the Canadian border).
mountains
Zooming in on the Continental Divide.

At a certain point, you no longer get faster, stronger, or more flexible.

Let’s assume you achieved your personal records for all three.

In every living thing, there’s a life-cycle.

After a living thing’s ‘peak’ there is a natural decline.

The goal of compounded physical hope is to remain extraordinarily vibrant given the historical data on how humans age each decade.

Random case in point:

In high school, i was able to place my palms flat on the floor with knees locked. Can still do it, 50+ years later. In the 65-69 age group, think about how many people you personally know who have this range of motion. My hope of staying flexible has compounded beyond my understanding.

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Disciplined hope, body

mountain parking lot
Glacier has published a 2026 goal to limit Logan Pass Continental Divide parking to three hours. It’s a goal, a hope. This hope will require a stunning set of unconventional processes that have never been tried.

i hope to take extended hikes from Logan Pass this summer (2026) like always.

i hope to not use the shuttle system to access Logan Pass. i do not trust Glacier’s shuttle system enough.

Hope is a great strategy, but a poor tactic.

Have already brainstormed alternative personal processes.

Untested.

But sound brainstorming based on abundant experience.

The inherent challenge is how to compete with other experienced annual hikers, potentially with the same creative solutions as me.

Like nearly everything, success is largely driven by “how bad do you want it?”

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