Glacier National Park – Page 8 – Disney Employee Engagement Speaker

Family traditions

Five. Hikers in the mountains posing for a picture. — So good.

Love how a simple experiment to add to our annual beach vacation has morphed into the annual Glacier trip.

During the High School years, we invited two freshman Latin class classmates to join us.

Their parents understood the gravity of the wilderness and my commitment to safety as a non-negotiable.

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Decently rare

10-second video: One million acres. Over 700 miles of trail. Plenty of animals. Sighting the big ones is decently rare.

Back in the day the wild was humanity’s gym.

For eons, no need for a gym.

The “gym” and “exercise” was how you stayed alive.

Fast forward to modern time, we call exercise what we used to know simply as staying alive.

Consider this: To this day, being active is an excellent way to stay alive.

Note to self, strive to create a lifestyle that is active enough it becomes your gym. For example, this Summer’s visit to Glacier and the high-altitude hiking and climbing required to get from point A to point B is the “gym”.

Final note: Wherever you are in life, creatively, and joyfully, make the most of your time.

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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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