Tag: Video

Insidiously self-destructing

6-second 2020 video: It’s human to do these two things occasionally. To do them habitually is self-defeating.

Two self-defeating behaviors:

  1. Waiting
  2. Doing nothing

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Different yet the same

9-second 2020 video: The Garden Wall, Bishops Cap, and Pollock Mountain from Mt Oberlin trail.
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The West side of the Garden Wall. The past few day’s videos show the other, Eastern, side.
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Photo: From a mile lower in elevation and from the opposite side of the Continental Divide. Driving back to West Glacier for the night. Looking back at The West side’s Garden Wall and Mt Gould. What i saw from Piegan’s summit and what you see here are dramatically opposite, even though we are looking at the same geographical location.

When you change what you see, what you see changes.

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Siyeh Pass

23-second 2020 video: Siyeh Pass is the saddle between Mt Siyeh (L) and Matahpi Peak (R), out of sight.

Looking down on Siyeh Pass in the video, the territory’s enormity is lost. And it almost looks like you could scale Siyeh by walking up the right side’s gentle slope. There is no climbing book saying it’s possible. But it looks possible from the video. This is one of Glacier’s elements that make it alluring to me – up close it’s ruggedly wild and untamed.

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Near the 9,200′ summit

This is a wild place. Looks tame in this 2020 video. It is a challenge to get to this point. The summit itself is mild, but there are parts along the way that most could not navigate. Long sections where nearly every foot placement is contemplated before actually bearing weight on the foot. Why? Because one miscalculation and you’ve got an automatic serious injury (at a minimum).

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Quick tour from Piegan

20-second video: Looking at Pollock Mountain and the Garden Wall from Piegan’s summit. Tried to solo summit Pollock not long after Steve and Stacy led me to the summit. This video of Pollock doesn’t communicate the degree of navigational difficulty, nor the slip danger.

Enjoying the ‘freedom’ to share videos with poor sound quality.

Why?

What we see is supremely more important than what we hear.

For example:

The fact that, as a 60-something year old, i hiked to a mountain summit. This video is telling a story about physical vibrancy that words cannot compete with.

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