*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 08, 2016

Lone Lake/Peak July 29-30, 2016

This is one of the more remote peaks in the park and it is 14 km one way just to get to the lake plus a few more km to get to the top.  So I figured I'd do an overnight hike with my two middle children.  The Friday morning we had finished our camping in Waterton town site and we took our camper home and then I headed up with the kids to hike to Lone Lake.  It took us about 4.5 hours to get to the lake, we set up camp and ate then went to bed.  We got up early and summited by 8:30 am and we had to hurry a little as I had to be at a wedding at home by about 4:30.  We made it with just about 30 minutes to spare.  The kids did great on the hike and I was able to cross one more summit off the list.


On our way

Blakiston Creek

Love the meadows along this hike

Another meadow

Awesome rainbow at our camp site

Lone Lake

Not sure what this was but it was all over this one tree we saw while summiting Lone

Lone Peak! (I think this is the earliest in the day I've ever summited a mountain)

My daughter made an Inukshuk on the snow

Looking down on Lone Lake

A little black bear we saw on the way back, he looked at us and so I went to take a picture and then he turned away

Pointing at where we were just a few hours before
Panorama on Summit

Video on Summit

Track of Hike

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