I Took The Path Less Traveled By: Mount Carthew, Buchanan Ridge and Buchanan Peak September 10, 2022 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

September 24, 2022

Mount Carthew, Buchanan Ridge and Buchanan Peak September 10, 2022 Waterton Lakes National Park

Often I get asked to take people on hikes and it is usually something I enjoy doing, so today was one of those days were a couple who are working on the peaks of Waterton needed to cross of Buchanan Ridge and Peak and I gladly went along for the ride. It was an amazing non windy day in Waterton and those don't happen very often. We got up to Carthew without too much difficulty and headed for Buchanan Ridge. Last time my son and I went straight down the ridge but it was a little spicy so this time I noticed on Gaia that you point yourself to the Cameron Lake road and head more west and then come back on less steep exposed cliffs. It was safer for sure but today there was snow on much of that area so it was still a little spicy. We eventually accressed the Ridge and then continued down to the Peak and then headed to town. Great day to climb 3 mountains!

Perfect reflection on Summit Lake

Little dusting of snow on Alderson

Custer, Kintla and Kinnerly looking awesome

Summit view looking to Alderson

Our spicy snow traverse

Looking up what I came down last time

Great view to the prairies

Heading for the last summit of day

Carthew Lakes

Alderson Lake

Carthew Summit Video

Carthew Summit Photo Sphere

Buchanan Ridge Summit Video

Buchanan Ridge Photo Sphere

Buchanan Peak Summit Video

Buchanan Peak Photo Sphere

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