I Took The Path Less Traveled By: February 2017

*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

February 19, 2017

Wall Lake Scout Camp Snowshoeing Feb. 18, 2017

So this winter we had had quite a bit of snow over the last few months but we were in the middle of a pretty warm spell. So for scout camp this year we decided to go up to Waterton and to Snow Shoe into Wall lake. Not knowing the snow conditions we headed up and luckily the snow had melted a little and made it possible to walk on it. I had heard that a few weeks earlier there was close to 250 cm of accumulated snow, that is over 7 feet, but because of the warm weather it had settled more and was more dense and was actually in the 4 or 5 feet range. Well the path was pretty good except after the Forum Falls turn off the snow was less traveled and as such wasn't as compacted down and I being the heaviest in the group had the hardest time because I was sinking every step and expending more energy with every step. I had skied this 3 times before but this was my first snow shoe experience and it was very good. Great time, except the snow at the end hindered the good view at the Lake.

Our Crew at the beginning, it was nice and clear to start

Akamina Ridge in the distance down the Cameron Lake Road

Getting close to Wall Lake, can barely see the wall through the snow

Almost there

The bridge just before the lake almost completely covered in snow

View from the above bridge to the Left overlooking the creek

View to the right on the bridge of the same creek

The Wall of Wall Lake

Looking towards the ridge between Wall and Forum Lakes

Another Wall Shot

And Another

And Another

On the way back another view of the creek, see how much snow there was

Avalanche zone going back

Another view of a different avalanche zone on the way back

This was just before we rejoined the main trail crossing a little bridge over another creek

Wall Lake marker sign almost completely covered in snow

Winter wonderland, too bad the recent snow had melted on all the trees

At the end

Mapmyhike track of hike

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