*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 24, 2018

Pole Haven Winter Scout Camp Feb. 15-17, 2018

We had done this camp a couple years ago, but with much less snow that we currently have.  We also decided to try two nights as opposed to just one.  We needed a snowmobile to carry a bunch of the food and gear up.  Unfortunately it broke down, but luckily it made it almost all the way there with all of our needed food.  We just had to improvise how we cooked stuff for the next couple days.  We started hiking to the Pole Haven Ski Cabin Thursday night and the boys carried all their gear.  The snow wasn't too deep, only had to post hole a little bit, but we didn't get to the cabin till about 8:30 or 9pm.  Suffice to say the boys were tired and ready for bed!  The stove in the cabin kept us warm both nights and we didn't every get really cold even though the cabin isn't the most insulated of structures.  Day 2 was spent sledding and getting our broken snowmobile back.  My father in law came and helped us do that.  Then that night we had another father come, with a snowmobile and that helped us get out the gear the next day.  Friday afternoon I was the only one that wanted to climb to the top of Pole Haven and over look the prairie.  It was a beautiful view and a great view of Old Chief Mountain was seen on the way up.  Then Saturday we hiked all our of stuff out.  The hike in from the corals at the community pasture is about 5 km each way to the Pole Haven Ski Cabin.  This structure was build in 1939 and is a neat little place to stay.  We were truly secluded back in there and the boys had a great time.

Blowing snow on our drive up Thursday

Start of our trek with Old Chief looming to the south of us

Pulling/Carrying our gear in

Got pretty dark and with the blowing snow we almost lost our way

Built in 1939....if these walls could talk!

View of the cabin surrounded by tonnes of snow

View of Chief on my way up to the top of the Pole Haven ridge

View on the way down of old Chief

Sunset over the trees

The snow was really coming down Friday night just before bed

Huge icicles on the side of the cabin

Inside shot of cabin looking towards entrance

Inside shot of cabin looking from entrance

Trekking out, off to Dairy Queen

Panorama on Top of Pole Haven

Slow Motion Video of the big air a boy got sledding

Track going to Cabin

Track coming down Pole Haven Ridge

Track leaving Cabin
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