*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

November 04, 2015

Bellevue Hill August 28, 2014

Since I had done the Tamarack Trail with my two oldest kids my third oldest was complaining so I decided to do an over night adventure with him.  So we drove up and camped at the Crandell Campground and stayed a night there, then got up in the morning and tackled the Bellevue Hill, not very difficult, but the views from the top were spectacular.  It was a foggy morning to start and as we headed higher the fog began to disperse.  It was quite beautiful coming out of the fog and seeing Blakiston and other peaks rising out of the fog.

In the fog on the way up

Rising above the fog Mt. Blakiston

Mt. Crandell

Fog clearing more on Blakiston

Ruby Ridge starting to show through the fog now

The fog clearing down to where we started

Almost gone

He took lots of coaxing but he made it

Getting really steep but beautiful view of Mt. Crandell

Looking down on Crandell Campground in the valley

The fog moved out over the prairies

Galwey now visible

Made it to the top looking east tot he prairies

Looking west towards Blakiston and Galwey

Ridge between Galwey and Rogan or Dungarvan SE2

His happy dance 

Last shot before decent

Beautiful view on the way down Anderson Peak now in view in the middle of picture


Vimy and Sofa to the south

Almost done


Panorama of just above fog view

Panorama of Summit View

Google Track of Hike

Stats of Hike:
Total distance: 4.28 km (2.7 mi)
Total time: 4:41:33
Moving time: 3:58:54
Average speed: 0.91 km/h (0.6 mi/h)
Average moving speed: 1.07 km/h (0.7 mi/h)
Max speed: 4.50 km/h (2.8 mi/h)
Average pace: 65:50 min/km (105:57 min/mi)
Average moving pace: 55:52 min/km (89:54 min/mi)
Fastest pace: 13:20 min/km (21:27 min/mi)
Max elevation: 2093 m (6867 ft)
Min elevation: 1362 m (4469 ft)
Elevation gain: 2111 m (6925 ft)
Max grade: 70 %
Min grade: -52 %

Recorded: 8/28/2014 9:15 AM

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