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Bow Hut | 2012-05-19

Bow Hut
  • Location: Banff National Park (Icefields Parkway)
  • Activity: Backpacking
  • Height: 2,412 m (7,914 ft)
  • Elevation Gain: 400 m (1,312 ft)
  • Distance: 8.0 km / One Way (5.0 mi)
  • Avg Steepness: 2.9°
  • Estimated Time: 2.5-4 hrs
  • Technicality: Novice

Wapta Peaks Bagging in the May long weekend. Due to crappy work schedule and unfavorable weather forecast on Monday, We had to leave city on Saturday instead of Friday night and pack peaks on Sat and Sun and leave Monday for hopefully-ish. This meant 2:00 am start...

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Bow Hut | 2012-05-19

We started hiking at 5:00 am.

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Bow Hut | 2012-05-19

Ice on Bow Lake was questionable, so we decided to go around the lake.

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Bow Hut | 2012-05-19

Canyon to the Bow Hut. Snow was already melting.

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Bow Hut | 2012-05-19

Took us about 3 hours to get to the hut.

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Bow Hut | 2012-05-20

The best!!

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Bow Hut | 2012-05-21

When we woke up on Monday, Bow Hut floated into clouds.

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Bow Hut | 2012-05-21

There were only us (3) and a couple at the hut.

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Bow Hut | 2012-05-21

Big hut.

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Bow Hut | 2012-05-21

Going home.

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