I Took The Path Less Traveled By: October 2022

*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

October 15, 2022

Forum Lake (Larch hunting) October 10, 2022 Waterton Lakes National Park Alberta

Family hike today on thanksgiving to look for Larch trees. Well it was a nice little stroll with the family, my kids have kind of grown tired of hikes, so this was probably our first entire family hike where we were all together in years. Unfortunately we were a few days late on the larch trees. The needles had fallen on many of the trees but there were still a few nice ones. I'll have to time it better next year.