Bow Hut

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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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We started hiking at 5:00 am.

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

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Canyon to the Bow Hut. Snow was already melting.

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Took us about 3 hours to get to the hut.

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The best!!

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

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

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Big hut.

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Going home.


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