*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

Galwey Summer 2000

This was day two of hiking with some friends while down in Southern Alberta.  We had hiked Crandell Mountian the day before.  So we started our hike and about a half hour into the hike we looked back and saw another group of hikes coming up behind us.  Well it was one of my room mates in Edmonton with his father and a few others.  The funny thing about this mountain is that it was called "break-up" mountain by this room mates brother.  The reason being was that every time they had hiked this mountain with a girl friend or potential girl friend the relationship inevitably went "south" after the hike.  So my room mate was dating a girl at the time and she was hiking up the mountain with him that day.  So when I saw it was Brian hiking that day I yelled down to him, "Brian, do you know what mountain you are climbing!"  I heard a little chuckle and a "yes!"  Anyways as fate would attest, the mountain lived true to its name as they did eventually part ways after the hike.  I think I may not take my wife up this peak!  Anyways this was a great hike. Good scrambling.  The weather was a little nasty and it did rain a little on us but it was still a good day.  The view from the top wasn't great as it was pretty overcast.  But once we started down the weather cleared up and the rest of the day was quite pleasant.  As a side note, this was the last hike I did with that room mate Brian.  He and his brother Gerry died while hiking Mt. Elbrus in Russia a few years later.  I think of them both from time to time and it was a great pleasure to have known them both.


On the way up, starting to get a little misty

This is looking down to the red rock canyon road, obstructed by cloud though

Me on the way up, I was much thinner back then

There is a little tricky section near the top and this I believe was in the middle of that

I had to get out the rain poncho as it started to rain a little

At the famous hole in the mountain near the top

Group shot on the summit

Sun finally came out and got a better shot, with red rock canyon road behind us

Coming down with the peak behind us

Approximate path we took

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