*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 04, 2017

Sulphur Skyline September 1, 2017

Well this was my first hike in Jasper National Park.  The day was beautiful except for the usual haze from the B.C. fires.  We had a group of 12 and the trail was a very busy trail.  Being Canada's 150th birthday #canada150 the parks have been free so they have truly been busy.  So we started up the trail and the total climb is 4 km each way.  It is pretty steady up hill all the way to the peak.  We had some young kids and they were troopers.  The views would have been incredible if not for the haze, but they weren't too bad. I got a look at a peak I had though about doing and will maybe do another time if ever in Jasper and that was Utopia Mountain.  The wind was another story, I almost thought I was in Waterton again.  Anyways after the hike it was nice to go into the Miette Hot Spring and relax and unwind in the warm water!

Unnamed Summit To the north of us as we hiked

Almost at the Summit, across the same unnamed summit in middle and in the distance on the left is Ashlar Ridge

Almost like a squirrel suite

Close up of Ashlar Ridge

Utopia Mountain behind Carter

Summit Picture behind some rocks to block the wind

Little Cairn on top looking West

On our way down in the trees looking west again at an unnamed summit

The D tree

Miette Hot Springs

104 degrees Fahrenheit or 40 Celsius
Panorama on Summit


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