Trip Highlights

Are you looking for a unique vacation next summer? An experience that combines an inspiring mountain wilderness with pampered relaxation and exquisite food? An experience where you set your own pace while learning about the environment as you explore? What about interesting company? Looking to share stories of discovery with like-minded people? You can do all of this and more.  Heli-Hiking caters to the rank beginner as well as the seasoned mountain veteran. AND WE WILL BE THERE TO TAKE CARE OF ALL OF THE DETAILS!

When the great explorer and mapmaker David Thompson crossed the "Shining Mountains" in 1806. he spied to the west an even more rigged range than the "Rockies".  These mountains, known as the Bugaboos are 135 million years old.  They have been explored by the area's Native People in search of food and fur, miners exploring for gold in the early 1900's.

The Bugaboos got their name from a turn-of-the-20th-century gold hoax. The name alone is in part responsible for their iconic stature in the mountain world, though the credibility of this reputation cannot be doubted when one considers the stream of legendary climbers who, during the 1950s – 70s, sought first-ascents on many of these peaks. There is probably no comparably magnificent range with so few visitors in the whole of North America, if not the world.

Your choice is only on how hard or easy YOU want to hike! We can do anything from a gentle, flower-rich hike, ideal for beginners, to a moderate meadowy hike with brilliant blue lakes along the way up to a peak, surrounded by awe-striking views of the Rockies to a sterling outing that works up from the canyon to a series of plateaus lavished with wildflowers and great views of peaks and glaciers. And we are there all along the way to make sure that this is the vacation of your dreams!

The Bugaboos are a hiker's nirvana. Three examples of the roster of more than 100 hikes:

Septet Traverse - This lovely hike begins in a larch forest on a ridgeline and weaves up and down through cirques and hanging valleys, each with it own glacial lake, each with a brilliant, unique colour, from azure to turquoise. Relatively distant views of the Bugaboo Spires give them a new, imposing aspect.

Rockypoint Basin - A pastoral, gloriously green hike in a large cirque with many variations, including a full-day hike up to Grizzly Ridge for massive views of the Spires .

Rooftop Ridge - One of the best places to get a 360 degree view of the southern Columbias , Bugaboo Spires, and the Rockies , Rooftop is a rocky, above-timberline hike with a number of pickup points along its length. From up here it's easy to make sense of the landforms and their ancient shaping.

THE LODGE - Newly renovated Bugaboo Lodge sits about 1600 metres (nearly a mile) high, with 35 rooms with private baths, a wood and stone bar-lounge, an expanded spa area with sauna, steam room, a games room, a handy shop, and a new rooftop hot tub with an extraordinary view. Unique to the Bugaboos, area manager Dave Cochrane has compiled a small interpretive museum of maps, pictures, natural history exhibits, and assorted fascinating Bugaboos memorabilia.

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