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Phelix Scrambles July 13-14
Bright and early Saturday morning, the Campbellmobile picked me up for my fourth VOC trip: a weekend of hiking and scrambling around Phelix Hut. It was Ross’s 40th trip, overall, but his first trip as an organizer. It got off … Continue reading
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Tagged 2wd, 4wd, Climb, climbing, Dmitri, dry, Golden Ears, hike, hiking, Hope, Mt Aragon, Mt Gandalf, pemberton, Phelix Hut, rain, ridge, Running, scramble, scrambling, shadowfax, Snow, Snowy, Squamish, summer, Waddington Hut, Weekend, Whistler
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Newest Brew Trail Work Hike (June 22-23)
Overnight workers: Roland Burton, Carla, Deb Conrady, Ross Campbell, Ru Lai Day warriors: Stephanie Grothe, Clemens Adolphs, Gili Rosenberg, Steven Baldwin, Matthew Topham Day 1 We cleared the 150m path of logs and made a new trail. Gili put … Continue reading
Posted in Hike, Huts, Trip Reports, Workhike
Tagged Black Tusk, Brew Hut, Firewood, helicopter, hike, overnight, Snow, Tantalus, Tantalus Provincial Park, Trail work, traverse
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Phelix New Years 2013
Day 1: With Derry and Greg, Carolyn and I started off on our first backcountry ski trip, dark and early at 0530 on December 28, 2012. The Jeep was pretending to be a coffee house, complete with tunes, breakfast wraps … Continue reading
Posted in Huts, Ski, Trip Reports
Tagged backcountry, beginner, beginner-friendly, Epic, fall, helicopter, Long Lake, Marcin, moonlight skiing, Mt Aragon, Mt Gandalf, Phelix Hut, powder, ridge, shadowfax, ski, skiing, Snow, spencer, Voile Strap, Weekend
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Brewski Brew Ski
Rain and a lot of snow… pretty much the same weather than the last attempted trip to Brew Hut two weeks ago. Because we were only 5 instead of 20, we came to the conclusion that we would be faster, … Continue reading
Waitangi day Sphinx
With 23 officially ‘going’ on the trip and more besides, there was 30-ish of us all told that headed up to sphinx this past weekend, including several first-time ski-trippers. On Saturday the weather could not have been better. The sky … Continue reading
Posted in Huts, Ski, Trip Reports
Tagged First-Time, Glacier, large group, leading, powder, ski, skiing, Weekend
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White Whales, Snowspiders and Clowns (Jan 28-30 2012)
On February 27 a group of VOC’ers set off into the wilderness off of the Duffey lake road. They continued past the beaten path, braving difficulties and adventure. This is Not their story… This is the story of an equally … Continue reading
Sphinx hut: How I won the game of GNAR
“The game of GNAR involves skiing + extraneous activities, much like normal VOC hut trips”. Disclaimer: I do not recommend watching the G.N.A.R. video in a public library, in class, or at work due to the abundance of “Man Ass”. If … Continue reading
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Tagged beginner, Garibaldi Lake, Garibaldi Park, ski, skiing, Snow, Snowy, spencer, Sphinx Hut, Trek
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New Years at Phelix
Philip, Olek, Annie, and I headed up on the 30th. We left Vancouver a full two hours after everyone else, but none the less, reunited at the trailhead with the big crowd. Breanne was supposed to be coming from across … Continue reading
Posted in Huts, Ski, Trip Reports
Tagged Climb, climbing, Face, Glacier, Mt Aragon, powder, ridge, scrambling, shadowfax, ski, skiing, Snow, turn around, Whiteout
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dedededede de do…Brew new years
Ignacio, Pascale, Evgeny and Murray, Skinned up to Brew hut, but not in a hurry, In blurry fog with a slurry of flurries, We arrived by 3:00 and made salmon curry, … Continue reading