*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

June 23, 2019

Chief Lodgepole Peak and Grizzly Mountain Glacier National Park June 19,2019

Today was a long one, and very windy.  The forecast for today looked pretty nasty everywhere, but the best looking place was the Two Medicine area of Glacier National Park.  We took the boat to start and that saved us a couple of km's.  On the way up to Cobalt lake we ran into a moose on the trail.  It took us a bit to get  him to move as he was right on the trail.  It may have been the closest I've been to a moose ever, pretty neat.  Anyways in the valley up to Cobalt lake the wind wasn't too bad but as soon as we gained the ridge before we summited Chief Lodgepole peak.  The wind was pretty strong at times and it was one of the windier days we've had in a while.  The summit stay on Grizzly was very short lived because it was so cold on top.  We had narrowly missed a few rain systems that had passed by but we had been snowed/hailed on a few times and on the way down the wind seemed to get stronger and we did get a little more rain.  Luckily we got back into the valley and it wasn't as strong.  We missed the return boat by about an hour and so had to walk all the way back to the parking area at the head of Two Medicine Lake. 

On the boat Sinopah looking at Sinopah.  

The moose we saw looking at us

First Bear Grass of the season

Rockwell Falls

There was a tonne of Glacier Lillies on the way up

Beautiful Creek on the way up to Cobalt Lake

There was still a bunch of snow on the trail to Cobalt Lake

Cobalt Lake with Painted Tepee Peak on the left

Where we ate lunch looking down on the valley we climbed up with Two Medicine Lake in the middle

Another shot of Cobalt Lake and Two Medicine Lake on the left

Our first view of Grizzly Mountain in the middle

Huge snow drift on top of Chief Lodgepole Peak

On the big drift looking back at Rockwell Peak

Summit cairn of Chief Lodgepole and Grizzle Mountain behind it

Wonder if anyone is brave enough to stand on that rock, kind of reminded me of Kjeragbolten that rock on Norway

Mt. St. Nicholas in the middle

Getting close so summiting, looking for a little wind shelter

Summit photo on Grizzly

Another view of St. Nicholas on the way down

Marsh area not far from Paradise point looking over at Rising Wolf Mountain

Photo Sphere on Chief Lodgepole

Summit Video on Chief Lodgepole

Photo Sphere on Grizzly

Summit Video on Grizzly

Track of Hike
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