*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

September 25, 2017

Angel Wing Sept 23, 2017

Well since the weather was a little uncertain I figured I'd do a little easier/lower elevation hike.  The choice was a good one and Angel Wing Peak was the goal for the day.  I figured since the boats at Many Glacier were not running that the trail would be pretty quiet, well I was wrong.  Even with the extra 4 km each way the trail was very busy.  We passed quite a few people on the way up and eventually we were blazing the trail in the snow just before the end of the Grinnell Glacier trail.  We then crossed over to near the glacier and followed ankle/calf deep snow all the way to the saddle between Angel Wing and Gould.  Then from there it was pretty clear on the wind swept shale all the way up to the summit.  The cloud cover never dissipated the entire day but at least we had good views of the Grinnell Glacier and the valley to Many Glacier below.  We returned the same way we came with a little variation.  On our drive home we decided to swing by Waterton since the park was partially open to survey the damage and well it is pretty bad.  It will take some time to get back to normal and it may be a long time till the trails are open again...but lets hope sooner than later!

Deer on the way up, it was pretty young looking

Angel Wing in the center

The blanket of cloud coming over Mt. Gould

Upper Grinnell Lake with the Grinnell Glacier on left and the Salamander Glacier on top

Looking down the valley towards Many Glacier (Lake Josephine in the middle)

The creek/river/water fall we had to cross

Some cool rock formations on the glacier plateau

View of Angel Wing from behind

Another shot of Mt. Gould and the blanket cloud, it looked like this for about 3 hours with some varriations

The drifting snow got pretty deep at times

On the Summit, Allen Mountain behind in the clouds

Many Glaciers valley, Grinnell Lake below and Lake Josephine in the middle

Summit Photo
That's Carter on the right with Many Glacier behind him


Coming down, you can see just how much snow was up there

The creek we had to re-cross

Grinnell Glacier
Panorama on Summit

Photo Sphere at Upper Grinnell Lake

Summit Video

Track of Hike

Crandell Mountain with all its burnt dead trees on it

Entrance to Prince of Wales hotel, those firefighters were amazing to protect this building

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