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Bugaboo Spire

The narrow grey spire tip with its jagged edged peak stands above a gravel snow covered slope. Two other grey spire peaks rise up from a glacier that sits next to the spired peak in the foreground.

Photo by Adorabutton; Source: WikiMedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bugaboo_Spire,_Bugaboos.jpg); Date: August 10, 2015.

According to the BC Geographical Names database, Bugaboo was a colloquial term to indicate ‘loneliness and/or hopelessness’. Located in the Purcell Mountains, which is a range of mountains located on the western side of the Rocky Mountain Trench. In 1916, Conrad Kain was the first mountaineer to reach the summit of the Bugaboo Spire.