I Took The Path Less Traveled By: Bertha Lake Family Hike August 6, 2012

*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

November 08, 2015

Bertha Lake Family Hike August 6, 2012

This was a great day for a hike. This was probably the longest hike I have done with a child in the child carrier we had purchased after we had our first child. The Bertha Lake trail is pretty easy till you reach Bertha Falls, then it is quite a bit steeper till you reach the Lake. My five year old boy took a lot of coaxing to get to the top but he made it all the way. The best part of the day was cooling off in the lake with the kids, they had a blast playing in the water.