*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

May 16, 2021

Mount Galwey (night summit) May 15, 2021 Waterton Lakes National Park Alberta

 So I had to work today but it was such a beautiful Saturday that I still wanted to get out, so we decided to do a night summit and maybe get a sunset from the top, well we didn't make the true sunset but the view from above was spectacular.  We made it most of the way to the top without headlamps but the last part near the summit we needed them.  The way down with headlamps was a little tricky at times to find the path but luckily the gps on my phone allowed us to stay on route.  Truly a beautiful night under the stars.  Started just before 8pm and got home and in bed just before 3am.  Quite a night!

View at the beginning

At the beginning we saw a few critters

Sun about to set on us

The shadow of the mountains

Blakiston looked majestic all night

I couldn't photograph Blakiston enough with the dusky sky behind it

Pretty amazing sky

The moon tonight was just a sliver but still shone bright

Lights on the prairies through the Galwey Window

One of the trickier sections on the way down with headlamps, little slippery on the snow

Astrophotography Mode on my phone looking West

Astrophotography photo looking south

Astrophotography photo looking north towards Galwey

Track of Hike




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May 15, 2021

Vimy Peak May 1, 2021 Waterton Lakes National Park

 So the weather looked good and the trail up wishbone we heard was clear so we figured this would be a good shoulder season summit.  I had done this a few years ago on the day before Vimy Ridge day in April and today was more pleasant except the snow was a little softer than in April but not bad at all.  We needed snow shoes about a 1/3 of the way up and then on the final scree to the ridge we took them off as the snow was fresh snow and wasn't that deep.  It was a real good dry approach on bikes except the creek was running a little high and took us a moment to find a place to cross.  Great day with some beautiful views of snow caped mountains.

View from the start

After we ditched the bikes

Grizzly Track

The snow shoe slog up the big ravine 

Trudging up the snowy ravine

Shortly after here we took off the snowshoes

First view of Crypt Lake

I've done this hike numerous times and never noticed this rock, amazing it hasn't fallen over

Summit View

We didn't get a group shot on the summit because the summit was actually covered in about a 3-4 foot snow drift that we figured wasn't very stable, so our summit visit was very short

Looking down on Burnt Rock Falls along the Crypt Lake Trail, I thought it could maybe be still frozen, but nope it was flowing

Great view of Crypt Lake

Photo Sphere on Summit



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