*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

Wall Lake Cross Country Skiing Winter 2000


This was a fun day, a group of friends were down from school in Edmonton for a weekend excursion.  We decided to go cross-country ski to Wall Lake.  I had attempted this years before as a scout and we had got lost on the trail because that year there was so much snow and the trail isn't very apparent on certain sections of the trail.  This year was different we had good snow and the trail had been skied before so we could follow the tracks.  My future wife was also in this group of friends and she had borrowed some skis from a friend.  They were waxed skis that had no wax on them.  Anyways it is quite hard to ski up hills with un-waxed skis, so I being the gentleman I was, switched my skis for hers.  Anyways, life was better for her but it was a very challenging day for me.  This may have been the spark that convinced my future bride that I was a good "catch."


This is our group at Wall Lake

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