Blog
The Bugaboos
September 29, 2023 to September 30, 2023
In Waterton, Rachel noticed that the last night of the season at a backcountry
hut in the bugaboos was still available, So we obviously booked it!
After a pretty long drive down a nice and bumpy road, we arrived at the trailhead and
put chicken wire around the van. The trailhead is known for porcupines chewing wires and hoses under
the van so we didn't want to come back tomorrow to a van that didn't start.
It started to snow on the way up, and was fairly low visibility. We were hoping that by the time we got to the hut it would clear and we would get a view of the spires and glaciers, what the bugaboos are famous for.
We were pretty lucky, and the weather did clear when we got to the hut! We even got a view of the fog rolling through the valley and covering the spires and glaciers.
The hut we were staying in was pretty neat, and had an amazing setting! It was off grid but had running water, gas stoves, and electric lights. Even though the weather wasn't great, it was still a full house because it was the last night of the season, so it ended up being pretty warm sleeping because of all the body heat.
The bathrooms were also pretty spectacular, the first picture was one of the outhouses that was built into a rock, the second picture is the view from the outhouse closer to the hut.
We were saving loads of weight not needing to bring a tent, sleeping pad, dishes, or stove which meant we could bring much more fun meals that we normally wouldn't want to carry, one of which was pancakes for breakfast :)
We got up the next day, and our luck had ended. It snowed for the rest of the day. We still did the little hike up the rest of the mountain to the lake in case we got a good view, but as you can see here the view was not great.
The first half of the hike down was pretty snowy, but the second half we got to take off our spikes because we were low enough that the trail was clear. This picture is part of the trail, if you look closely you can see the ledge and chain used to walk up this rock face.
