I Took The Path Less Traveled By: Upper Rowe Lakes August 2, 2021 Waterton Lakes National Park

*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

August 14, 2021

Upper Rowe Lakes August 2, 2021 Waterton Lakes National Park

Family hike for the day, nothing too hard but it was sure nice to be in Waterton hiking in an area that still has trees, it wasn't terribly warm today but it was humid and I sweat a bunch today. Last time I was in the Rowe lakes area was pre Waterton fire when we summited Rowe peak and the Helicopter told us to get down!