Heli-Hiking with The Walking Connection and Canadian Mountain Holidays

Walking Connection - Heli-hiking Canada Highlights
Bobbie Burns and Bugaboo Lodges

Bobbie Burns Lodge - August 29 - September 1
Bugaboo Lodge - September 1 - 4 Both Lodges - August 29 - September 4

Join us on either 3-Night Adventure or combine them into one fantastic
6-Night journey through the "Bugaboos!"

Are you looking for a unique vacation this 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!

Bobbie Burns Lodge August 29 - Sept 1

The Bobbie Burns range takes its name from the great Scottish poet. “Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire,” he wrote, “That’s a’ the learning I desire.” In the 1880's, prospectors searched the area for gold. They instead found rich deposits of silver. Mountaineers have only touched the edges of the Bobbie Burns area with the first espeditions being for survey puposes in the early 1900's. Very few people other than Heli-Hikers have ever set foot on these remote mountains, some of which remain unnamed today. Bobbie Burns Lodge accommodates 44 Heli-Hikers in 24 rooms, all with private bath. The lodge has an outdoor whirlpool, sauna, games room, porch-side basketball hoops, shop, and a fireplace in its roomy common area. Its extensive wine cellar is certainly one of the world’s best in a wilderness lodge.

Bugaboo Lodge Sept 1 - 4

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. The 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.

"If you can only go on one more vacation for the rest of your life, this should be IT!" Gene & Jo Ann Taylor, 1994, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,
2004, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 & 2009.

*Due to the early morning departure from Banff to the heli-pad and lodges, arrival for each individual lodge stay requires one additional pre-trip night in Banff, Alberta.