“I just wanted to get to the top of that mountain and I remember telling myself as I was walking up that mountain – and this got really deep -, I was like ‘If you give up now, you are going to give up on anything that you try in your life.’ I made it […]
30 seconds. Maybe it was even less. That is how long we had feeling in our feet if we stood still in the water. Would you wade out into the frigid water of Iceberg Lake (you can probably guess why it has that name)? Would you climb on the chunks of ice floating in the […]
Curiosity roamed free on Thursday, August 10, 2017. A turquoise blue lake awaited us tucked behind a 6.5 mile hike along a moderately trafficked trail. The Cracker Lake hike gains 1,686 feet in elevation. This was a day of exploration of glacier-like chunks of ice, wild flower filled glacial trickles feeding cracker lake, climbing red […]
A great hiking trip is incomplete without a “refresh day”. Swimming under a 34-45 degree waterfall is certainly refreshing – more than refreshing. Kayaking with views of the mountainous Many Glacier Hotel with 360 degrees of peaks is mentally refreshing. Wednesday, August 9th was a reset day in which we let our spontaneity and curiosity […]
Hey Summit Squad, First off, I’m super stoked that To Summit Up now has a logo (up in the header at the top of the page as well as right below)! What do you think? Secondly, we are going to continue our journey through my week at Glacier National Park in Montana from Summer 2017. […]
Hi To Summit Up squad! I apologize that it has been quite some time since my last post. Grad school and work are certainly keeping me busy. It is quite refreshing to take a quick break and write and I certainly feel that I should be allotting a little bit each week to stay fresh […]