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We were genuinely concerned about the fire reaching Apgar
Apgar Village Inn. Every room faces Lake McDonald.
We cruised through 10 miles of smoke on Lake McDonald.
Ok visibility at Apgar.
Labor Day weekend crowd.
Glacier National Park t-shirts. i teach the Disney Compass which is part of the Customer architecture.
Glacier National Park t-shirts. Howard likes the left one. The right one reminds me of Disney.
Glacier National Park statistics.
A t-shirt and a post card showcasing the view on a clear day.
Glacier National Park t-shirt – seems to smile from up top.
Same t-shirt – seems to frown from the bottom.
Glacier National Park t-shirt – founded 1910.
In Apgar Village there’s one restaurant and one ice cream shop. They share the same name, Eddie’s. Huckleberry pictured above.
Howard telling stories.
Howard is a quiet guy in general.
Sperry Chalet fire 2017 – from GNP FB page.
Sperry Chalet fire 2017 – from GNP FB page.
The right glow is closer than i remember it last night. Look carefully in the upper middle left and you may notice two light spots – fire on Mt Brown.
In a perfect world, we’ll get 5.5 hours sleep. It wasn’t a perfect world last night.
The fire on Mt Brown (left side of photo) is raging 11 miles away. The right glow started mildly concerning us.
We became mesmerized at the fire trying to breach the ridge (a couple miles away. With high winds coming at us, we agreed to be ready at any time to jump in the car.
Foreground: the two balcony chairs outside our window.
As we retired to our room from a wonderfully relaxing day, and crawled into bed, we watched the fire grow in intensity and wondered if the Canadian cold front winds could push the fire to our hotel before dawn.
We watched the “show” for three hours until 11PM.
At 10PM, we stepped outside to try “one more time” to get a photo that did justice to what we saw with the naked eye.
Panic.
Our door shut and neither one of us had a key.
Lake McDonald’s waves now had white caps crashing the shore and i wore nothing but running shorts.
Unless another Guest invited Howard and i to sleep in their room, i pictured hypothermia.
i also knew we’d miss our 3:45AM drive to the airport.
i witnessed my third “save” in less than a week.
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By jeff noel
Retired Disney Institute Keynote Speaker and Prolific Blogger. Five daily, differently-themed personal blogs (about life's 5 big choices) on five interconnected sites.
