This night, the ski underwear wasn’t enough. We need get some additional blankets if we are going to survive Glacier National Park. We gave up our sleeping attempts around 7:30.
Ski underwear for the win. No freezing this night. Got up well-rested around 7:30.
We started the day with a vegan™ porridge for breakfast.
What a cold night. We expected some cold, just not so soon. Salt Lake City greeted us with 29 °C yesterday, so we didn’t go all-in with our various sleeping bag and ski underwear options. It was not freezing cold, but cold enough to not enjoy the sleep. Around 8:00 in the morning, one hour before the alarm was set, we eventually gave up and decided to call it a night.
This is going to be a very long day after a rather short night. It begins at 02:45 in the morning with my “Eye of the tiger”-alarm that I use on special occasion like this, i.e. when stakes and cost of failure are high.
This trip is, as so often constructed around a business trip. Marius, a colleague of mine, and I got our works accepted at a conference near Portland, happening end of September. It didn’t take us long to recognise the potential for an epic adventure, road-tripping through some National Parks before duty calls. It’s the perfect time of the year between summer and autumn. Moderate temperatures, snow still unlikely, and colorful trees.
The plan is to fly there September 11, to Salt Lake City, head north through Grand Teton, Yellowstone, and Glacier National Parks. We then plan to head west, possibly paying Olympic National Park or Seattle a visit before driving south to Portland, where we have arrive at September 24.
Using experiences from a Canada trip in 2017, we are going to rent a van, whose interior can be converted into a flat surface, and turn it into an improvised camper van where we can sleep in. The plan looks solid. Biggest fail potential is not getting the right kind of car, as there’s no model guarantee, but only a class you rent. Well, let’s hope for the best and see how things turn out.