*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

July 29, 2019

ACC Summer Camp The Bugaboos July 22-27, 2019

This was my first Alpine Club of Canada Camps and from what I experienced it will not be my last.  I booked this some months ago and was pretty excited to go experience something different.  I bought a lot of new gear which was way too shiny compared to everyone else's but it didn't matter.  So we headed up to the Bugaboos early Monday morning the 22 of July and hiked from the parking lot to the Conrad Kain hut.  The 5 km hike wasn't bad except for the almost 60 pound pack I was carrying made it pretty tough.  We had beautiful views all the way up which motivated me.  That afternoon we explored around a little and that included a quick trip by some of us up to the Applebees campground.  I could not believe the tents up there.  I think they said that there were about 60 tents up there.  So on Tuesday a large group of us headed up to Hounds Tooth and crossed the Bugaboo Glacier to get there.  It was my first real time travelling on a glacier.  The snow was soft enough that we didn't need our crampons.  The view on that summit was amazing.  Wednesday was a rain day and so we chilled most of the day in the cabin.  However, in the morning I did do a crevasse rescue/anchor building exercise to practice crevasse rescue.  Thursday we attempted Brenta Spire and since we ran into a snag we headed over to Eastpost Spire instead.  Friday was the epic day, here I got to do my first multi-pitch rock climb and we climbed Lion's Way on Cresent towers.  Overall this was an amazing trip and the views at the Bugaboos is just amazing, definitely a place I'd like to return to again.  Then Saturday we came home.  What a week! I took over 500 pictures and they never do justice but here are a few!

There used to be lots of porcupines in the area that would eat at the underside of your vehicles so you protect them with chicken wire...just encase.

The first views of the area were amazing.  That peak in the middle is Hounds Tooth which we would climb the next day

The hut sign, learned a lot about Conrad Kain this week...what a boss!

The hut with Eastpost spire behind it

View over to the glacier from Applebees campground

Some of the tents at Applebees

Some info about Conrad Kain

Heading up the Bugaboo Glacier towards Hounds Tooth

Heading up Hounds tooth with Pigeon Spire in the middle and Howser Towers to the left

On top of Hounds Tooth with Snowpatch Spire in the middle

Coming down Hounds Tooth with Snowpatch in the background

Sunrise heading over to Brenta Spire attempt

Summit Selfie on top of Eastpost Spire

View of Snowpatch on left and Bugaboo Spire on right from Eastpost

Our entire group

Just getting ready to climb Lion's Way looking across to Snowpatch spire on left

My guide for Lion's Way Tim...what a boss! Bugaboo spire on left

Shot going up Lion's Way with Snowpatch spire behind

One of the several pitches up Lion's Way

On top of Lion's Way...epic!

View from the top of Lion's Way

Reflection in a glacier lake of Snowpatch Spire


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