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01_09_28 till 30 Abbot Pass and Abbot Hut
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Beautiful fall weekend, we finally decided to hike to Abbot Hu, one of many alpine huts belonging to Alpine Club of Canada. The hut is located on a crest of Abbot Pass at the height of 9,598 feet. It is only second to Neil Colgan hut as the highest permanent structure in Canada. Hut was buil in 1922 and is the most unique of all alpine huts.
Abbot Pass sits between Mount Victoria and Lefroy. There are three approaches to the pass, two of them very technical while third is the easiest and the most logical. It starts at picturesque Lake O'Hara, along high alpine Lake Oesa than follows very strenuous steep route up the wide gully. At the end one can rest in beautiful Abbot hut.
Along with our friends Ann and Tim (accidentally we went with them on their honeymoon trip to Peru, but that's another story) we took of in the morning from Calgary, cought Lake O'Hara bus - 12 km from parking lot to the lake itself. Once there off we went. After many hours of very strenuous hike we managed to make it to the top. Wow, what a site - I took lots of pictures, they are testimony to eternal beauty of Canadian Rockies. if you have time you can see all pictures by clicking here
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