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Trips which involve building/maintaining our huts and trails

In Jeff We Trust – Weekend #1 of Phelix Roof Construction

Trip Date: July 28-30, 2023 As you all know by now, especially following Adam’s report on getting stuff to the hut for this project, Phelix, or Brian Waddington Hut underwent some serious changes this summer. A new roof was desperately … Continue reading

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Phelix Roof: Getting The Stuff There

As you may or may not have heard, the VOC has been busy making construction plans since March, when the roof at the Brian Waddington/Phelix Creek Hut suffered a partial failure. Fundraising, structural design, materials procurement, transportation, meal planning, and … Continue reading

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Trip Report: Phelix Workhike 2023

Written by Roland: “For those who don’t know, the roof of the Phelix Hut decomposed and a massive amount of work is required to replace it. I decided to go up for a few days and help a bit . … Continue reading

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Harrison Hut Spring 2023 (The Key Worked This Time)

Trip Participants: Elias Bowman, Rob Cieniawski, Eric Daigle, AJ Dreher, Nelson Fretenburg, Mozi Lu, Laura Mantin, Braydon Massoud, Joe Meyer, Dorian Simon, Adam Steele, Xander Hudyma Yu, Quintus Zhou. If you are a regular reader of VOC trip reports, you … Continue reading

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Harrison* Workhike, Spring 2023

Trip Participants: Elias Bowman, Sri Chaitanya, AJ Dreher, Joanna Gower, Anushika Jain, Mozi Lu, Braydon Massoud, Naomi Prohaska, Adam Steele, Joshua Tindall, Allen Zhao.   On Friday, May 19th, three cars of excited VOC’ers set out from Vancouver to visit … Continue reading

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Phelix: “The Front Fell Off” – Emergency Roof Repairs.

So there I was, toasting some walnuts for a delicious sauce, when Ross walks in the door looking perturbed. I caught “Haley” and “Put a tarp on it” and chuckle to myself. “Oh dear” I thought “I guess the roof … Continue reading

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A Rip Up To Phelix

I attempted to jot down a few notes during the last night at Phelix, the are as follows… -furst dday, early am at breka -we did not run with axes pr chainsaws during this trip -the community of voc… Now … Continue reading

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Harrison Work Oct 7 – 10

The Harrison Hut is hard to work on for a variety of reasons: the grizzlies, geological instability, logging, locked gates, and mostly, a lot of regulations. No doubt the regulators will tell us that their regulations have been very wise, … Continue reading

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First Weekend Brew Hut Workhike!

Participants: Ana Ciocoiu, Akash Madhav Gondaliya, Anja Westermann, Annabelle Damude, Cameron Donnelly, Cassandra Elphinstone, Charlotte Mittelstaedt, Chen Qin, Elaine Zhou, Eric Daigle, Haley Foladare, Isabella Negrini, Jacob Grossbard, Laura Mantin, Lucas Braun, Richard Pan, Shruti Yogesh Vansia, Tom Curran, Zachary … Continue reading

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Hot Brew Trip July 30-31

The Plan: Shuyu announced that she wanted to do the Alcoholic Traverse and she needed a ride back to her car at the end of the traverse, so we figured we might combine this with a trip to Brew Hut. … Continue reading

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