*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 11, 2015

Wall Lake Winter Camp February 13-14, 2009

This winter camp was a cold one.  There isn't much for camping options for up in Waterton during the winter and I was a little inexperienced at that.  We figured we could just stay at the pass creek camp kitchen and with the fire we would stay warm.  It would have been okay if the door had sealed better and the place was a little more insulated.  I froze and it wasn't a pleasant sleep.  Anyways, the Friday night we hiked up bears hump and then on Saturday we headed to Wall Lake via skis or snowshoe.  The camp was memorable but a little colder than I had wanted.  The boys didn't really complain which was good and we all came home that Saturday night and got warm.

Heading up Bears Hump

Waterton Town site during the winter
Our crew on Bears Hump


On the way down

Beginning of our adventure

At our goal for the day Wall Lake

Nice view that day

Close up of some of the ice on the wall

Coming back

Elected to not ski down the end portion of the trail as it is pretty crazy coming down that on skis


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