Snowpatch Spire

#487 among destinations in Canada

Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain

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Snowpatch Spire is a mountain peak in British Columbia, Canada. With its first ascent in 1940, it was the last of the Bugaboo Spires to be climbed. It is located southwest of the Conrad Kain hut, across the Crescent Glacier. ()

First ascent: 1940Elevation: 10118 ftProminence: 932 ftCoordinates: 50°44'10"N, 116°46'55"W

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Snowpatch Spire – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Crescent Towers, Hound's Tooth, Crescent Spire, Marmolata Mountain.

1 miN
Mountain
Crescent Towers, Bugaboo Provincial Park
26 min walk • Crescent Towers are towers just east of Crescent Spire and south of Eastpost Spire in the Purcell Mountains of the Columbia Mountains in southeastern British Columbia, Canada.
0.9 miS
Mountain
Hound's Tooth, Bugaboo Provincial Park
22 min walk • Hound's Tooth is a peak in the Purcell Mountains of the Columbia Mountains in southeastern British Columbia, Canada. Hound's Tooth is a rock pinnacle at the end of Marmolata Mountain's northeast ridge.
1 miN
Mountain
Crescent Spire, Bugaboo Provincial Park
26 min walk • Crescent Spire is a peak in the Purcell Mountains of the Columbia Mountains in southeastern British Columbia, Canada. Crescent Spire was named in 1933 by James Monroe Thorington because he was impressed with its shape.
1 miS
Mountain
Marmolata Mountain, Bugaboo Provincial Park
26 min walk • Marmolata Mountain is a nunatak in the Purcell Mountains of the Columbia Mountains in southeastern British Columbia, Canada. It was named in 1930 by Eaton Cromwell because he thought it looked similar to the highest of the Italian Dolomites.
0.9 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Eastpost Spire
24 min walk • Eastpost Spire is a peak in the Purcell Mountains of the Columbia Mountains in southeastern British Columbia, Canada. Eastpost Spire lies just to the East of Bugaboo and Snowpatch Spires.
0.7 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
The Bugaboos
19 min walk • The Bugaboos are a mountain range in the Purcell Mountains of eastern British Columbia, Canada. The granite spires of the group are a popular mountaineering destination. The Bugaboos are protected within Bugaboo Provincial Park.
0.7 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Bugaboo Spire
19 min walk • Perhaps the most impressive peak in the Bugaboos, Bugaboo Spire sits between the Vowell and Crescent glaciers, just under 2 km West of the ACC's Conrad Kain hut. It has some of the most spectacular alpine climbing in Canada. The Spire was first climbed by Conrad Kain in 1916.
1.2 miS
Mountain
Pigeon Spire, Bugaboo Provincial Park
31 min walk • Pigeon Spire is a peak in the Purcell Mountains of the Columbia Mountains in southeastern British Columbia, Canada. It may be one of the most climbed of the spires in The Bugaboos owing to its relatively low prominence from the Vowell Glacier and the existence of an easy route.