*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 09, 2020

Anderson Peak and Lost Mountain July 8, 2020 Waterton Lakes National Park Alberta

So today was a father and son's hike, Carter has been wanting to finish his Waterton Peaks list and the Kenow fire kind of slowed that process down.  So today we figured we go for three and do the Anderson/Lost/Bauerman hike.  So we headed out early and headed to Red Rock Canyon.  I had done this hike years ago and this time I read another report by Andrew Nugara to go up Anderson first via a different drainage and then complete the three peaks backwards.  So we decided to try the same hike as before except backwards.  The ascent drainage up was actually a pretty good scramble, I'd do it again!  Unfortunately the cloud cover was pretty low most of the day and before we reached the summit ridge we were completely fogged in.  I have always wanted to stand on the far false summit peak of Anderson and look down on Red Rock Canyon but the cloud cover made it so that I couldn't look down and see anything.  Oh well, next time.  So walking over to summit Anderson and then later lost the wind picked up and it was pretty nasty.  We were both cold and decided once on Lost to call it a day and head down.  Last time I remember this descent route being a slog and it was again.  I don't think I'll ever go down this way again.  The only advantage this time was that the last 100 meters of bush was burned away and re-finding the trail was easier.  Well my son only has about 6 or 7 peaks to finish all of the Waterton Peaks.

Blakiston Creek was still pretty except for all the dead trees around it now

Heading up there were some pretty awesome looking cliffs

Heading up the drainage to Anderson looking over at Hawkins in the clouds

Near the top of the ridge all fogged in

This was the view from the false summit of Anderson looking down at Red Rock...the fog was too thick and this was the best shot I could get

Heading over to Anderson the clouds opened up for a few good views

The usual cliff shot

Anderson Peak summit number 1 for the day

Lost Mountain summit #2 for the day

The only thing nice about the drainage down was this waterfall


At the end looking up at the false summit of Anderson that I wanted to look down at Red Rock from






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