Just North of Amazing.
The audible crack of glaciers calving, a mountainside of mica reflecting like a mirror, peaks towering to an unimaginable scale.
Airy heart-pumping ascents on via ferrata routes, immediate heli access to wander amongst subalpine wildflowers or the meditative refresh of watching granite pillars tower over vast Canadian icefields. Remote, untamed wilderness as far as the eye can see. Imagine your guests, relaxing into wilderness luxury while surrounded by peaceful solitude—and sharing it all with an instant community of likeminded souls. This is summer at CMH - a place that shapes, inspires and transforms.
Like Yosemite or the Yukon, the Bugaboos have been a place of pilgrimage for mountain souls for more than a century. With iconic towering granite spires and status as a special provincial preserve, the Bugaboos resonate with power and beauty. Our guests soak in that aura due to our special grandfathered access as the only wilderness lodge on the edge of Bugaboo Provincial Park. A place of decompression, inspiration and reflection—with a network of mindblowing high route trails matched to all generations and fitness levels—CMH Bugaboos is both an alpine classic and the birthplace of our brand.
Over Five Decades of Leadership.
Founded in 1965 by legendary mountain guide Hans Gmoser, CMH grew from pioneering the heli-ski industry to an international leader in wilderness adventure, family-style hospitality and operational health & safety. With more than three million acres of access and twelve inviting lodges in North America’s most stunning topographical terrain, CMH guides transformative experiences for mountain souls, delivering trips of a lifetime, year after year.
When people conjure up visions of wild, northern mountains, it’s the Cariboos range they see in their mind. Turquoise blue tarns, more than five hundred glaciers, remote mountain lakes, wild, canyon waterfalls, vast alpine meadows, seven thousand square kilometres (2700 sq mi) of high mountain terrain to explore. Oceans of fresh water frozen in time. The Cariboos represent true wilderness that defines what is so truly distinct and rare about the mountains of Western Canada.
Pioneered in the Italian Dolomites during the First World War then later popularized for recreation throughout the European Alps, via ferrata (or “iron road”) climbs provide the challenge of an ascent with the protection of fixed steel-cable, steel-rung routes. The resulting guide-led, gear-protected climbs provide the rush of ascending in alpine terrain without need for rock climbing training or heavy loads of gear. Our four established routes range from the longest via ferrata in North America on Mt. Nimbus to the lofty air of the Skyladder, the up close and personal journey of a Glacier on Conrad, or the tight waterfall topography on our Zilmer Canyon route. Each is designed to leave you breathless but craving more.
“Because of their absolute beauty there is some sort of energy in the Bugaboos that a lot of people find it really cathartic and healing. There is something about looking out your window and seeing those huge granite spires then just knowing that you’re going to head out there to some amazing terrain. It makes you focus more inward on yourself.”
-Tanya Steen, Bugaboos Lodge Manager
