*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

Bears Hump January 1, 2000

There were a lot of people doing things for the first time in the new century and millennium so we decided as a group of friends to do our own "first."  So after a dance on new years eve we headed up to Waterton to be the first to climb bears hump in the new millennium.  We had quite the blizzard driving on the way up and some of our group turned back as the roads were to treacherous, but the remaining group forged through and had a great time.  We sat/slept in our vehicles at the parking lot for the hike and waited till morning.  One friend even brought a tent and slept in it, the ranger came along and said we shouldn't pitch tents in that area but he was ok with it for this night.  Eventually the sun started to come so we headed up the hike and got to see the sun rise...well not really.  Because we didn't realize that in winter,  Vimy peak would be obstructing the sun rise because in the winter the sun doesn't rise very high in Canada.  It was still a fun day and we had our claim to fame.


Our group on the dawning of the new millennium!

View of Waterton Lake that morning

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