Bill Putnam hut, Mountain refuge in Selkirk Mountains, Canada

Bill Putnam hut is a mountain shelter in the Adamant Range of the Selkirk Mountains, British Columbia. It sits at the edge of a high meadow and offers shared sleeping rooms for around 20 people.

The Alpine Club of Canada built the hut in 1965, a project proposed and largely overseen by alpinist and author William Lowell Putnam III, later president of the American Alpine Club. In 1973 Putnam again funded and supervised a renovation that considerably enlarged it, and it has since been renovated and partly rebuilt twice. It was renamed the Bill Putnam Hut in 2002; Putnam died on December 20, 2014, at age 90.

The hut is used by mountaineers and backcountry skiers who come to explore the Adamant Range during summer and winter. The shared sleeping rooms and common spaces naturally bring visitors together around the same routes and objectives.

Reaching the hut takes several hours on foot with a steep elevation gain, or visitors can arrange helicopter transport. The location is remote, so coming prepared for cold temperatures and basic facilities is important.

The hut has an unheated front room built specifically to store food, a feature that is not common in mountain shelters. Water comes from a nearby creek, so visitors depend entirely on the surrounding landscape even for the most basic needs.