Bugaboos Trip 2021 - Part I - Hike from Parking Lot to Applebee Campground

About as beautiful as it is strenuous. Hiking from the Parking Area to Applebee Campground is an enjoyable slog. From the initial soft forest walk, up through meadow, then straight into the alpine you follow enumerable waterfalls and are met with a beautiful vista of glaciers and alpine spires. For more Beta on the Hike up see: https://bcparks.ca/explore/parkpgs/bu... Parking Lot to Conrad Kain Hut 4.5 km 720 m Flat valley bottom for the first km, then climbs steeply to the hut. Trail passes through granite rock bluffs, climbs a steel ladder, and has exposure to steep drop-offs. Sturdy footwear is required. Conrad Kain Hut to Applebee Dome Campground 1.0 km 200 m Trail crosses the creek flowing out of Crescent Glacier (follow cairns), then climbs up an old moraine and through boulder fields to the campground on the bare rock slabs of Applebee Dome. https://www.alltrails.com/trail/canad... This is Part I of IV where we climb: Sunshine Crack, Snowpatch Route, and McTech Arete, before heading back down to the Parking Lot, thoroughly exhausted.