Category: Glacier National Park

Glacier checklists, work

bear and three cubs on mountain lake iceberg
A stunning, unexpected, and 30-minute bear encounter.

Glacier checklists.

We (i) have them for us.

We have a routine, a process.

And yet we remain open to new learning and discovery.

In fact, we seek it out.

Special note: This would be a completely different checklist narrative if two things:

  1. We were both visiting the same first week. Same mountain legs and lungs adaptation needs.
  2. It wasn’t our final trip, but actually just another in a long line of accumulative visits.

Ya feel me?

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Pull up a chair

Walgreens photo app screenshot
One of my favorite memories from our 2025 Glacier visits.

A high-mountain chalet made from mountain-side rocks.

A small, spartan room, stone floor, with a steel bunkbed and one folding chair. A window, modest wall mirror and tiny nightstand. A wooden door that locks only from the inside.

The walls are thick from the massive rock ‘bricks’.

If you climb up onto the outside windowsill, you create a homemade, natural ‘chair’.

Sometimes it’s the best seat on the Continental Divide.

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Disney and Glacier Brands

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#Truth

Disney’s brand is delivered through our front-line employees. You know the ones. The Cast Members who interact with the paying Guests all day long.

Same at Glacier National Park.

Same in every organization.

How cool is that?

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Glacier ambitions

mountains and a lake
Bottom to top: Swiftcurrent Lake, Lake Josephine, Angel Wing, with Gem Glacier (formerly a glacier) on the Continental Divide. Many Glacier’s roofline barely visible.

Glacier ambitions in 2026?

To revisit all our favorites.

The photo above is from a new hike we did in 2025.

Seeing Many Glacier Hotel’s roof line from this vantage point was wonderful.

We could spend all our time in Glacier seeking more, newer.

In 2026, the goal is to visit with our closest Glacier friends.

Glacier ‘friends’ in this context means trails, hikes, overlooks, traditions. Nothing new.

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You can’t make this up

12-second video: Momma did the right thing for everyone. She went off trail and took the shortest path to Lincoln Pass.

There used to be a time where i legit believed there was a Grizzly behind every tree saying, “Shhh, here comes Jeff”.

Note: First visit to GNP was 1973. Yearly visits began in 2013.

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