Bow Hut

Bow Hut
Bow Hut - Sept 2005
General information
Type	alpine hut
Architectural style	Metal Shelter cabin
Location	Wapta Icefield
Country	Canada
Coordinates	51°38′6″N 116°29′24″W / 51.63500°N 116.49000°W / 51.63500; -116.49000
Opened	1989
Owner	Alpine Club of Canada
Technical details
Material	Metal
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Alpine Club of Canada
Website
www.alpineclubofcanada.ca/facility/bow.html

The Bow Hut is an alpine hut located at an elevation of 2,350 metres (7,710 ft) on the eastern edge of the Wapta Icefield in Banff National Park. It is the largest, best equipped, and most accessible of the four alpine huts on the Wapta Icefield, and serves as the base for a wide variety of ski tours and mountaineering ascents to half a dozen peaks on the Wapta. It is the easiest and safest starting point for the Wapta traverse; and Balfour Hut, the next hut on the traverse, can easily be reached from it in a day. It can also serve as an intermediate stop in a longer traverse which starts at the less easily accessible Peyto Hut. The hut is maintained by the Alpine Club of Canada.^[1]

The hut sleeps 30 and is equipped with propane powered lamps and stovetop, and a wood stove for heating. There are two indoor drum toilets.