*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 12, 2020

Sofa Mountain July 11, 2020 Waterton Lakes National Park Alberta

So today was my son't 18th birthday and so I thought it would be great to watch the sunrise on a summit.  Well Sofa was on his list of to do's for Waterton, So I thought that is an easy enough summit to attain in the dark.  So we started hiking at about 2:30 am and got up on the summit just before the sunrise at 5:45 am.  It was a gorgeous view all day long.  We were even able to see a comet called Neowise in the sky in the early hours of the morning.  The wind was a little chilly on the summit but otherwise it was a perfect morning to climb and the views on top with the sun coming up were amazing.  I will definitely try to do summit sunrises more often.

Long exposure picture at beginning

My crew for the hike

The comet was best seen at about 3am (center of picture)

Getting lighter as we almost gain the false summit

Can start to see into Waterton

Sweetgrass hills in the distance

On the false summit

The moment we came for on the summit

Cleveland in the distance

Wide angle shot from Cleveland on left to Blakiston on right

The sun on the mountains in the morning was incredible

With the birthday boy

Heading down, such a clear morning

Sofa falls

On the way home I couldn't resist the canola picture with the windmills west of Magrath

Track of Hike





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