*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

November 28, 2020

Bike to Red Rock Canyon Nov. 18, 2020 Waterton Lakes National Park Alberta

 So I got a Wednesday off work, so a friend wondered if there was any potential ice to climb up in Red Rock Canyon.  Since the road is closed every winter, nobody really goes up there in the winter and he heard there is good ice that forms in the canyon.  So with the warmer weather we figured the roads would be clear enough to bike.  So we headed out and biked up there and well the warmer weather was also bad for the ice as none was really there.  But I'd imagine that later in the season it would be pretty good.  We did explore a little and headed down and checked out Blakiston Falls which was pretty in the winter.  The bike ride in and our wasn't  bad except the wind on the way in made it a little more difficult.  Luckily we had it on the way out and only had to walk over a few drifts on the road in and out.  

Biking up to Red Rock

Some of the road was covered in snow and we had to walk our bikes

Beautiful snow covered cliffs of Blakiston

Anderson looking so Majestic

Here was what the ice looked like

Another view of the ice by the top bridge in the canyon

Wind blowing snow off the top of Blakiston

Another view of Anderson

Blakiston Creek above the falls

Ice forming around Blakiston Falls

Track of Bike/Hike

Time Lapse of Bike Ride Out