*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

August 15, 2020

Crowsnest Mountain August 14, 2020 Crowsnest Pass, Alberta

So this was a last minute idea, Thursday night my brother-in-law wanted to go hiking but also wanted to do something in the afternoon so I thought a sunrise summit of Crowsnest would be an option.  Well we got up at 1:15 am and headed to the trail.  We started just after 4 am and got high enough by the 6:19 am sunrise to see the sunrise.  We weren't at the top then but close.  In hindsight I'd have started about 45 minutes earlier to get to the top by sunrise.  Otherwise the views were spectacular in the morning.  I love the glow the sun gives on the mountains in the morning.  The top was chilly and with wind chill it had to be negative Celsius temperatures.  We came down and spent the rest of the day in Waterton.

Long Exposure from where we parked

The crescent moon was really neat on the way up

Sunrise coming over the Livingstone Range, we were about 30 minutes from the top but had a great view on the east side of the mountain

Looking over at the Sisters the cloud above is shaped like a tornado and ironically is over Tornado Mountain

The glow of the sun on the mountains

Summit view towards the rising sun

I loved the triangle shadow that the mountain cast

Track of Hike





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