*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 06, 2016

Carthew Peak, Buchanan Ridge & Peak July 25, 2016

Three is the charm on this one.  This was my third attempt to get Buchanan Peak and Ridge and I finally did it.  The first two attempts were fails because of snow and wind.  This day was perfect.  I took my oldest son and we summited all three peaks.  I had read in books that coming down from Carthew Peak to Buchanan Ridge is a little tricky and well, I will attest, that it truly is.  There was quite a steep cliff band we had to get down and we, very carefully, made our way down.  I probably wouldn't recommend this way unless you are really prepared and not afraid of heights.  Once on Buchanan Ridge the rest of the hike wasn't too bad.  It did get slow going the last little bit before we regained the trail just before Alderson Lake but if you go slow it isn't too bad.

Cameron Lake still as can be, I got a better picture a couple days later

Love the reflection on the lake

Summit lake was equally as calm

Snow covered peaks of Glacier park

Heading up Carthew looking down on the Carthew Lakes

Carter on the ridge heading to Carthew looking over to Cameron Lake and the road that comes up to Cameron Lake

Carthew Summit

Heading down the questionable cliffs from Carthew Peak

Looking left at the cliffs we came down

Looking up the cliffs we came down

Looking over towards the ridge up Alderson Peak

Looking back at the cliffs we came down

Buchanan Ridge (higher than the peak)

Little un-named lake we looked down on from Buchanan Ridge

Another shot of where we came from, Left is Carthew peak and the ridge we came down to Buchanan Ridge

Could see the Prince of Wales from Buchanan Peak

Almost at the true summit of Buchanan Peak, notice the cliff on the left

Approaching the true summit of Buchanan Peak

Summit Shot on Buchanan Peak

Neat crack in the mountain of Buchanan.  It almost looks like one day this could crack the mountain in half and send a big rock slide down the Carthew/Alderson trail towards Waterton townsite. (Buchanan Ridge in the background)

We had a great view of Carthew Lakes on the way down

We also got a different view of Alderson Lake on the way down as well

Panorama on Carthew Peak

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