*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 10, 2019

Ski Retrieval Attempt #1 Cameron Lake Waterton June 7, 2019

Well I got to use an e-bike for the first time today and wow that is an awesome toy, expensive, but awesome.  I rented my e-bike from Pat's and for the 4.5 hours I used it I got charged $90.  Anyways skiing up the Cameron Lake road in the winter took me 6.5 hours, on the e-bike it was 45 minutes!  I think the way out only took me 30 minutes.  Anyways the retrieval was an unsuccessful one, but I think I'll be able to find it because there were some snow patches higher up where I think it is still buried in.  I'll have to try again in a few more weeks.  I wasn't expecting the avalanche slope to be so full of alders and bushes but it was I had quite the adventure going up the side of the Forum ridge, and my knees and shins are bruised and scraped because of it.  It was a beautiful day minus a little snow that fell on my a couple of times, but not much.  Anyways hopefully I can find it next time. I broke my first rule of hiking today and hiked alone.  So to keep bears away I took a Bluetooth speaker and blared music the entire hike, I guess it worked!

Burned area on the shore line trail

Mt. Custer

First look at the slope I would head up

There were three possible drainage basins the ski may have gone down, I tried looking up all them but no success

Little snow storm that blew in while I was pretty high up

I think that that ridge in the middle was where I lost the ski and it took off down the hill in waist deep powder and was buried somewhere below that

The possible path of the ski is in the middle of this picture, I think it is still buried in the snow patches still remaining

This was one of the bigger patches of snow and it may have slid down the hole there?

The nasty Alder bushes I had to struggle through

Closer look at the brush I had to search through

Partially burned bridge on the way back

Another eerie look at the burned forest

My chariot for the day!

My hacked and slashed knees for the day, the gators kept the shins clean

Track of hike/bike ride

Photo Sphere at the high point of hike

Video at the high point

Time lapse of the bike ride up
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)