*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

Highline Trail and Swiftcurrent Mountain August 16, 2019 Glacier National Park

So I had done this trail years ago but today we added a few side trips.  It was a cooler day and thus we didn't get as hot, which was nice.  However, we barely missed a hug downpour of rain at the end and then that night it snowed on Logan's Pass.  Anyways, this is a very common trail very traveled and the entire way was trailed.  To my surprise the Fire-lookout at Swiftcurrent mountain is still in use.  Anyways great day with lots of km's. 

Start of our day

Oberlin very nice summit with a great view

Haystack Butte on the left with the Garden Wall in the middle

Looking back at Oberlin

Those are some steep cliffs

Got a good view looking towards Lake Macdonald

Looking down on Grinnell Lake/Glacier and Salamander Glacier

Granite Park Chalet

Swiftcurrent fire lookout

View down on Many Glacier with Wilbur on the left

Looking towards Mt. Gould with Swiftcurrent glacier in the middle

Looking down on the Chalet

The cold front coming over Logan's Pass, it snowed that evening

The miserable weather at the Pass parking lot

Track of Hike



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