*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 18, 2020

Dundy Peak and Cloudy Ridge July 15, 2020 Waterton Lakes National Park Alberta

So another wednesday another hiking day.  Today was another father and son day as my son continues his quest to hike all the Waterton Peaks.  He now has 6 left.  So in the Nagura scrambles book he talks about a "Dundy" peak between Dungarvan and Cloudy so I figured I better do that one.  When I had done the Red Rock Rim Traverse a few years back we actually didn't summit Dundy as we didn't think it was named.  So today we had to get it done since it is now an unofficial named peak and it is in a book.  So we headed up Lost Horse creek and gained the summit of Dundy and from there traversed over to Cloudy and summitted it as well.  Interesting that there had only been 4 parties summit Cloudy since I did it in 2016.  We then headed down to Red Rock Canyon and tried to take the creek bed out but it was nasty with all the extra logs jammed in the creek bed from the Kenow Fire.  So we bushed above the creek bed and it was pretty nasty bush considering the recent fire.  I scratched my legs up pretty good and was reminded how much I hate the bush.  Anyways got it done and crossed off a couple more peaks for my son.

Looking down on the Lost Horse Creek bed

There were plenty of flowers on today's hike

Came across an area on the way up Dundy where you could see some burnt trees, except these were old burnt trees pre Kenow fire, so there must have been a little fire up here a while back

There were a few steep sections to scramble up to Dundy

I saw someone's post on facebook and they did Dundy but came up the ridge on the left and it looked pretty nasty and steep, our way was much better

In Nagura's book he talks about one "crux" part which was this cliff band you had to get over and here it is, not terrible but a fall would definitely not be pleasant here

Almost to the top of Dundy

Found a little window looking towards Galway and Dungarvan SE2

Beautiful flowers on the top of the ridge traversing to Cloudy

Resting on the nice flat summit of Cloudy

Cloudy Summit register and the 4 parties since we climbed it in 2016

Quite the cliff on the face of Cloudy

As we headed down to Red Rock Canyon we went through this burned out section of trees that must have been terribly thick pre fire and I thought we may have been the first humans to hike this section in years because who would have gone through this mess before?

Track of Hike






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2 comments:

  1. euro706615 June 2021 at 16:30

    Hi,
    I was wondering, do you have the GPS tracks for Dundy and Cloudy?
    Thanks

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  2. Darren Ellingson15 June 2021 at 19:02

    https://www.gaiagps.com/public/fW9IXBufdbeGfBzb3HOrgvm3

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