*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

January 09, 2021

Full Moon Cameron Lake Cross Country Ski Dec 29, 2020 Waterton Lakes National Park

I had hear years ago that if you go up to Cameron Lake in the winter on the night of a full moon the reflection from the moon on the snow of the lake makes it so bright you don't need flashlights.  So Dec. 29th was a full moon and so we figured we'd head out on our Cross Country Ski's.  As we drove to Waterton that evening it looked like it was going to be a great night.  Well as in all things in Waterton, the weather changes and you don't get what you expected.  The night wasn't too cold but as we started out on our ski's the clouds rolled in and once we reached the lake we had no moon to see because of the clouds.  A few other parties of people were there wanting the same thing as us, but to no avail.  We waited till it got too cold and then skied out.  Ironically once we were back at the vehicles loading up the clouds cleared and for about an hour the moon was in full display, unfortunately we were not heading back.  Maybe next full moon this winter we'll give it another try.

This was my kids first time cross country skiing, and they did pretty good

Heading to the Lake

Long exposure shot at the lake

Heading back

Back at Little Prairie Parking lot when the clouds cleared

Driving back the moon was just beautiful

Long exposure shot on our drive back

Track of Hike


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