*I hope people use their own wise judgement when hiking always plan ahead and be prepared. One should never go beyond their abilities.*

Over the years I've had a few goals my first was to Summit all the Peaks of Waterton. Here is My Waterton Summit List I completed that goal on September 26, 2016.

My next goal I'm still working on and that is to summit the 6 10,000 foot Summmits of Glacier National Park. I have one left Kintla.

My 2018 Goal that I accomplished was to summit 40 peaks in my 40th year and that I finished on September 26, 2018.

Not sure what will be my next goal, once Glacier's Summits are done?

I commonly use 3 Hashtags on my social media. The first one is #itookthepathlesstraveledby which is to reference this blog. The next two relate to my father and grandfather who were also hikers. #milesformarkellingson is to remember my
Dad, Mark Ellingson and #dustfromthetrailandhowitsettledonme is to remember my Grandfather Earl Ellingson

October 26, 2015

Lineham Cliff afternoon hike September 24, 2015

On September 24, 2015 a group of us headed up to Waterton in the afternoon to see if we could get up the Lineham Cliff.  I had hiked up and over it 20 years earlier but hat always thought how stupid our group had been to scale and climb the cliff.  Anyways we set out a little more prepared with gear and less prepared with time.  We got to the cliff but one member of our group had to be back that night for another endeavor.  I got to where you climb across the cliff and it actually doesn't look to bad to scale.  I'll have to try this one again some time.
Looking back on Buchanan Ridge

The Lineham Cliff

This is the is where you would go up to hike Blakiston

Lineham Peak to the Right

High point between Lineham Cliff and Blakiston

Lineham cliff with the falls with very little water coming down, from here it looks impossible to climb

Looking back to the valley we hiked up

Getting closer to the cliff

This awesome sight is just to the north of the cliff

On the Cliff, you can see there is a ledge just wide enough to traverse

Better view of the ledge

Looking behind me where I came up the scree to get on the ledge

Heading back with the beautiful fall colors

More fall colors

Sunset on the way home, too bad the sun sets so early in the fall, because the day was beautiful.


Stats for Hike:

Total distance: 9.89 km (6.1 mi)
Total time: 3:03:36
Moving time: 2:45:48
Average speed: 3.23 km/h (2.0 mi/h)
Average moving speed: 3.58 km/h (2.2 mi/h)
Max speed: 9.90 km/h (6.2 mi/h)
Average pace: 18:34 min/km (29:53 min/mi)
Average moving pace: 16:46 min/km (26:59 min/mi)
Fastest pace: 6:04 min/km (9:45 min/mi)
Max elevation: 2036 m (6679 ft)
Min elevation: 1544 m (5067 ft)
Elevation gain: 584 m (1915 ft)
Max grade: 37 %
Min grade: -61 %
Recorded: 9/24/2015 3:30 PM

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