*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

September 28, 2019

Mount Helen and Flinsch Peak Glacier National Park September 25, 2019

Today was one last trip to the mountains before a significant snowfall forecast for this weekend.  We headed down to Two Medicine in Glacier National Park.  Our primary objective was to bag Mount Helen, but once we had done Helen we decided since Flinsch was right there...why not.  The approach up to Dawson pass was a long grunt of 10.5 km but we got up in good time.  The wind was of course blowing pretty strong but we got some relief from time to time behind rocks.  The views from each summit were amazing.  As I was coming up Helen, I thought that this was going to be a pretty uneventful summit view, but wow was it impressive.  Maybe it was the dusting of snow on Rockwell or the beautiful Upper Two Medicine lake below, but it was a great view to behold.  Flinsch was the same, we got a great view North and East towards Rising Wolf.  Great fall hike and ended up with almost 30 km for the day.

Beautiful fall colors in front of Pumpelly Pillar

More fall colors

Heading up Helen's summit ridge looking down on Two Medicine Lake and "no name" lake

Slog up Helen, not the most spectacular approach

The view on Helen was spectacular

Another view on Helen

Heading up Flinsch

The top of Flinsch was a nice scramble

Looking down towards Two Medicine Lake

Looking down as we come up Flinsch at Dawson Pass on the right and if you follow that ridge up...there is Helen

Looking East towards Rising Wolf

Looking north towards the Cut Bank area

Getting a glimpse of Mt. Stimson in the middle

Heading down the views were amazing

Another view of Dawson Pass on descent, notice Mt. St. Nicholas on the right of center (triangle shaped peak)
Track of Hike






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