Hound's Tooth, Bugaboo Provincial Park

#3 among attractions in Bugaboo Provincial Park

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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. Both mountains are Nunataks, sticking up from the middle of the Bugaboo Glacier. The Hounds' Tooth is composed of a coarse, fractured granite. ()

Coordinates: 50°43'28"N, 116°46'30"W

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Hound's Tooth – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Howser Spire, Crescent Towers, Crescent Spire, Marmolata Mountain.

1.7 miW
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Howser Spire, Bugaboo Provincial Park
44 min walk • Howser Spire, or Howser Spire Massif, is a group of three distinct granite peaks, and the highest mountain of the Canadian Bugaboo Spires.
1.8 miN
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Crescent Towers, Bugaboo Provincial Park
46 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.
1.8 miN
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Crescent Spire, Bugaboo Provincial Park
46 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.
~1850 ftSW
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Marmolata Mountain, Bugaboo Provincial Park
9 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 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Snowpatch Spire
22 min walk • 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.
1.5 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Eastpost Spire
38 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.
1.6 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
The Bugaboos
41 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.
1.6 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Bugaboo Spire
41 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.
0.6 miSW
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Pigeon Spire, Bugaboo Provincial Park
15 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.
2.5 miN
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Brenta Spire, Bugaboo Provincial Park
63 min walk • Brenta Spire is a peak in the Purcell Mountains of the Columbia Mountains in southeastern British Columbia, Canada. Brenta Spire is the highest and middle of the three granite spires on a cirque west of Cobalt Lake.