*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

May 27, 2017

Bellevue Peak May 27, 2017

Well we had our little father and son's outing this year.  But this year my youngest daughter tagged along and so I decided we'd do a little easier hike, since she is only 7.  So I decided on Bellevue.  Most of Waterton is still under a fair amount of snow at the higher elevations, but this peak is not.  We made pretty good time and practically followed the same route we took 3 years ago.  The day was amazing and there was just a couple sections where the wind picked up but it was sunny all day and nice and warm.  The only downside of the day was when we got home we found 8 ticks in my daughters hair and I found 3 in my cloths!

Some of the first flowers of the year

There were definitely a few in this meadow

My daughter wanted me to take a picture of every type of flower we saw, some pictures turned out better than others

Last flower picture

Snow covered Ruby Ridge and Blakiston

Same picture except with a dead tree in it

Our Summit register sign in from 3 years ago

Looking over to Forum Lake and Akamina ridge

Close up of Blakiston

Galwey and the ridge over to Dungarvan SE2

Picture we texted to Mom!

Group shot on summit

There was a little snow on the top

View over to Vimy and Sofa
Map My Hike Track



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