On October 13th we went to the Lizzie Creek Cabin.
The old logging road (the trail) was extremely bushy. There were also a lot of logs. The only log that wasn’t annoying was the log bridge.
Helpful log bridge
Unhelpful logs
There was an exact copy of a guinea pig on a wiffle ball, but mirrored.
Rock guinea pig, Tree wiffle ball
Guinea pig, Wiffle ball
See the resemblance?
Here’s the best curvy tree in the world (that I’ve ever seen)!
Maybe you’ve seen better. It was right next to Lizzie Lake.
Curvy Tree
I was really tired when we got to the hut. I really liked the instant noodles that I had.
My dad thinks this is the best. The thermostat is not connected to anything.
When we arrived it wasn’t turned off!
There were lots of mouse poops.
The lakes were frozen.
Frozen Lakes
We didn’t just do 7 turns—we did 7 reallllllllly tight turns.
Each turn is the length of a chopstick! (Maybe more like four.)
The roof was bent. We were chilly because the hut roof wasn’t insulated.
No way to fight against roof crushing snow
This was a very hard trip. So hard that I felt like I was walking on ant legs.
Planning to go up there with Cassandra’s trip, Planning to leave Vancouver Friday noon, because I can, and spend night at Skook, arrive at trail head before the Vacouuver group that started Saturday. But what should do after I deliver my sturdy trail workers to the trail head? Go back to Skook? Bring loppers? Can I use the brush saw? (I like brush saws). Is it really worth while to work on the trail when most of the good work would be at the cabin, if the present caretakers would allow it?
Most of the good work is at the cabin?! The cabin is in really good shape and there’s hundreds of hours of work to be done battling slide alder and deadfall. Most of the forestry works is beyond the 5 km mark, though. If I was going to make things better there I’d leave the hut maintenance stuff at home and bring a chainsaw, brush saw, loppers and a machete. There’s few enough big logs that I’d leave the peavy at home.
Ok Jeff, I haven’t been up there for a year and things at the hut are much improved, but the roof still needs insulation under it. But we aren’t going to touch the hut because that’s somebody else’s project. I heard that Haley needs to go up there to complete her huts file, which might be a good excuse for not working on the trail. I was planning to go there this summer but it didn’t happen.