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beginner friendly hot chocolate at phelix hut · Sat. Oct. 24th, 2020 - Sun. Oct. 25th, 2020
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Start: Saturday, Oct. 24th
End: Sunday, Oct. 25th
Pre-trip meeting location: Zoom - Wednesday, 5pm.
Description:
Trip organizers: Tereza Jarníková and Sam Viavant
Have you ever wanted to hike to one of the famed VOC huts (but, alas, not sleep in one this time around) but haven't gotten a chance to? Do you like hot chocolate, bolete mushrooms, changing fall colours, etc? Are you keen to do an easy-going fun thing with potential for nippy temperatures in the brisk shoulder season weather? Do you know any good jokes that don't involve whales?
We're running an explicitly beginner-friendly trip to Phelix/Brian Waddington hut (one of the VOC huts in the Tolkien range) this coming weekend. The plan is to start from Vancouver at a very early hour of the morning Saturday, hike to the hut via the Phelix Creek Trail, get there with daylight left, do easy reading/walking about/enjoying being out, potentially go on a short walkabout/ridgewalk Sunday, weather and group preference permitting, then drive back and be home Sunday night. We will be hiking *to* a hut, but thanks to COVID not sleeping *in* a hut. You'll somehow need to have a tent and ideally a tent-buddy from inside your immunological bubble. Trip size small. Talk to us.
What you can expect:
-5 kms, 560m elevation hiking (we can go at any pace required)
-Sleeping in a tent in October in BC
-a pretty good recipe for hot chocolate (vegan/non-vegan options available) poured using a sterile technique into a mug you've brought yourself.
-cool foliage
-it to be somewhat cold
views of: mud, a lake, mountains named after things in the lord of the rings
-potentially easy scrambling/ridgewalking
This is meant to be a beginner-friendly-forward trip - folks who haven't been to a VOC hut and/or have less hiking/camping/outdoor experience will be given priority. Trip size unfortunately capped due to covid. Extra points if you have a car.
Posted: 2020-10-18 21:55:50
Last modified: 2020-10-18 21:59:19