*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 25, 2019

Gargantua Caves August 23, 2019 Crowsnest Pass

So every few years we take out scouts through these caves and well this was going to be my third time going.  We have always come up the B.C. side since it is shorter and now because the government has shut down any motorized vehicle use from the Alberta side the B.C. side will get far more used.  It was a great day and I got to take my 2nd son.  Now I have taken both my boys through these caves. Photography in these caves are difficult, I used my go pro this year and got some pretty good video.

Our group starting out

Heading up the scree

Here you can see the entrance in the top right corner and the exit on the bottom left.

Entrance of the cave

We saw four goats, they came and were licking up our urine???

I took a bunch of shots when they were close to us and they were not scared at all

Father and Son picture at the cave entrance

The first rappel 

2nd rappel

Our group waiting to go down the final 5th rappel to enter the "birth canal"

Beautiful vista on our way down

Track of Hike



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