Polar bears, wildlife, endless bushes, ancient glaciers, uncharted wilderness, inhospitable climate – there’s a lot a tourist can think of when contemplating the last frontier straddling the northern end of the world. The commonality between many of these descriptions would be a theme of solitude and survival. What about relaxation and simple peace? If you …
Many Glaciers and Many Thoughts
The drive from the cabin at Kalispell to the Many Glacier region is a fairly long one. You enter the national park once more, drive through the Going-to-the-sun road one more time, exit the park via Saint Mary’s and then take the highway 89 towards Canada, until you reach a cutoff to the left. This …
Glacier National Park – The Giants of the North
Giant, towering monoliths rising to the sky across lush, green, glaciated valleys, filled with the most magnificent alpine lakes you will see in the lower 48. The long journey was over. I had finally arrived at Glacier. Of the two major entrances into Glacier, I had picked the more picturesque one (debatable) that boasted one …
Odessa Lake : Love at first hike
My two cents on Odessa lake If a higher power presented me with the option (unfairly, of course) of getting to hike only one lake in Rocky Mountain National Park for the rest of my days, I would pick Odessa lake. I first beheld Odessa on a particular evening, sometime in October 2023. I started …
Maroon Bells – Stillness is the Move
A recollection of my thought process from Dusk till Dawn on this spring trip I made to Maroon lake in 2022.
Glacier National Park: The Long Road North
Every trip to Glacier feels like a dream. Still, I will try to recall it.









