Harlan Lewis

Designer, builder, mediocre mountaineer.

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Bugaboos

#outdoors 2022

50.736, -116.782

Tents and campers silhouetted in the evening light against Snowpatch Spire.

Road trip across British Columbia and a few days scrambling granite and glaciers in the Purcell backcountry.

Every car in the parking lot was wrapped in chicken wire - the canonical defense against porcupines chewing brake lines and tires.

Panorama from Eastpost Spire overlooking Houndstooth icefall, Snowpatch Spire, distant Howser Spire, and Bugaboo Spire.A creek tumbling across the trail, the Conrad Kain Hut on a bluff in the valley belowClimbers on a granite wall, seen through binoculars.Tents pitched on granite at dusk, a gravity water filter rigged on trekking polesA climber skirting a turquoise melt pool on the glacier beneath Bugaboo Spire.A U-Haul van wrapped in chicken wire, same as the restApplebee camp from above, tents scattered across granite shelves beneath Houndstooth icefallSnowpatch Spire, its namesake patch on the face, glaciers and tents of camp belowA chain bolted along a cliffside trail, glaciated peaks across the valley
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