*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

December 29, 2015

Akamina Ridge Summer 1999

This was a very hot day and one hike that I actually ran out of water on, luckily there was a lot of snow pack to get more water from.  I had been camping the night before in Glacier park and drove up that morning to Waterton.  I even got my first speeding ticket on the way up.  Anyways our group started early and we had a great hike.  None of us really knew the way up from Forum and I have since learned there is a trail.  The way we went was fine and I did it the same way a couple years later.  This path makes it easier to do Forum Peak, because if you take the actual trail from Forum lake you go up the ridge between Wall and Forum lakes and you have to double back to get Forum Peak.  Anyways great hike and beautiful day.


Picture of our group heading over to the high point of the hike directly behind us

On a high point of the hike with Kinnerly and Kintla peaks behind us

Approximate path we took

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