*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

July 20, 2019

Egypt Lake Banff National Park July 16-18, 2019

So after I returned from my winter trip to Egypt Lake, I decided to go again so I booked the Egypt Lake Hut for the summer.  Well the time came to go and so we made this a family excursion.  The trip had forecast for a little rain, and the little rain turned into a lot of rain and a little snow?  Our hike in wasn't too wet, we got up to Healy Pass and had a great view down onto the Egypt Lake area, but didn't have a great view south because of cloud.  The night we arrived we though we could make a run up the Sphinx without any problem and maybe get a summit sunset.  Well the trail was a little harder than we though and we ran out of time and it was rainy and wet.  So we returned and went to bed.  The next day we tried again for the Sphinx and maybe thought we could get in the Sphinx and Pharaoh in.  Well the rain made it so that we only did the Sphinx.  The Summit view on the Sphinx was great except for the rain and being overcast.  I wish it could have cleared off but it didn't.  So the next morning we got up to fresh snow on the Healy Pass above us and so we cleaned up and headed out.  The weather was ok till the pass then it was all down hill....literally.  We got rained on the entire way out.  Lets just say that is probably the wettest I have ever been hiking it even snowed a little.  Well we got back to our vehicles and got warm and dry.  Maybe I'll have to go back another time and bag Pharaoh Peak another time.

Our crew at the beginning

Bear track on the way up

Heading up Healy Pass looking back

Unnamed lake just below the Monarch in the clouds

Egypt Lake in the middle with Pharaoh on left and Sphinx on left

Got a visit twice by a helicopter for some hut maintenance

The Sphinx reflecting on Egypt Lake

Scarab Lake with Scarab Peak behind

New motto in life?

Sleeping quarters (hut sleeps 12)

More quarters

Cooking area, where a lot of cards were played

Our group at Scarab Lake

Heading up the Sphinx looking down on Mummy lake

Mummy Lake on left and Scarab Lake on right

On the Sphinx looking down on Egypt Lake

The larches were amazing up here...maybe a fall hike (Pharaoh Peak in the clouds)

2nd Helicopter visit flying in front of Pharaoh Peak

The Hut with Sun on it!

Getting ready to leave, dry at this point

Clear on top of Healy Pass on the way out

This is what we headed into???

Track on way in

Track of the Sphinx

Track on the way out

Photo Sphere at Egypt Lake

Sphinx Summit Video

Photo Sphere looking down from Sphinx
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