I Took The Path Less Traveled By: Mt. Blakiston November 9, 2016

This fall of 2016 has had some incredible weather. So I got invited to go for a hike and decided to take a day off work. It was the night after Donald Trump won the American election and I had not got to bed till about 12:30 am and got up at 4:30 so we could be on the trail early. Anyways aside from no sleep it was a spectacular day. 10 out of 10 on the view-o-meter! When mountains are snow capped they sure look amazing and the day was nice and sunny, it was just a little windy at times but that is to be expected in Waterton. Our group started on the trail with our headlamps and by the time we reached the ravine to start heading up it was light enough to ditch the head lamps. We summited just after 11:00am. We had hopes of doing the Hawkins horseshoe but the wind was too strong and the snow looked too deep on the ridge around Lineham Lakes. The summit views today were spectacular, maybe the best 360 view of the mountains you can get. It helps that Blakiston is the highest peak around! So the wind was pretty strong up top so we didn't stay long but headed down basically the same way we came and headed home. Awesome hike for almost mid-November!