*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 30, 2020

Newman Peak Sept 29, 2020 Waterton Lakes National Park

My 200th post on my blog. So Carter joined the club of climbing all the summits of Waterton today.  This was his final peak and it was a beautiful day.  We headed out early because we had another engagement that night.  I'd been on every peak with him on his journey and it was great to be with him today.  I was 38 years old when I finished this task and he was 18...a little younger eh.  So we took our bikes because we wanted to finish early and that made a huge difference.  It only took us about 20 minutes to go the 4.5 km to the Goat Lake trail.  The way out only took us about 10 minutes.  The entire trip for the day took us about 4.5 hours with about a half hour rest on the top.  So also this hike carried a little special trip down memory lane.  This was the last mountain I hiked with my father 8 years ago.  He passed away suddenly 6 days later and this was the last time I got to spend time with him.  I told this to Carter and he said hopefully you don't die in 6 days.  I responded to him that if I do he better not climb this mountain ever again.  So this summer has been about getting this goal done for Carter and now that he is leaving on his LDS mission to Toronto Canada I won't have my trusty hiking partner anymore and I'll actually be able to hike new places, cause I've done lots in Waterton and I think it is time to hike somewhere else for a while. 

Beautiful start to the day with the sun hitting Anderson

Biking through the burned forest

Goat Lake

Spread Eagle Mountain in the distance looking down on Yarrow canon

There was already a snow cornice

A dusting of snow on the Glacier Peaks to the south

Finished his goal, all 33 names peaks of Waterton

Proud of this boy as he will be serving his LDS mission in Toronto for 2 years...leaves in less than a week

Summit view over to Avion Ridge

Looking west towards the Castle Area

Beautiful Larch Tree

Track of Hike






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