*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 26, 2020

Ruby Ridge September 22, 2020 Waterton Lakes National Park

 So we had a Covid-19 scare and as a result we had to quarantine for 2 weeks and so that pushed back my son's Waterton Summit completion.  So today we decided to get one more done and now there is only one left...Newman.  I thought we could maybe do both in one day but the bike ride up the newly opened Akamina Road was too much for us and we were out of gas after finishing Ruby.  The ride up to Lineham Falls trail wasn't too bad but it does take a lot out of you.  We climbed this much like we did years ago but this time more than I reached the summit.  It was an overcast day but luckily there was hardly any wind.  On top we could see the Larch's turning color all around Ruby Lake.  It was pretty to see that.  We then headed down and took the awesome bike ride down on the nice new road.

Biking up the newly paved Akamina Road

Mt. Lineham and Lineham Cliffs in the distance

Blakiston in the background of Ruby's ruby ridge

Can see all the way to Cameron Lake and all the burned trees 


Ruby Lake surrounded by Larches at the base of Blakiston's Summit

Could barely see the Lineham Lakes

Elder's Evans and Ellingson

Better view of Cameron Lake in the distance

Track of Hike

Summit Video

Summit Photo Sphere

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