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[Date changed] Middle Earth Alpine Adventures and Legendary Thanksgiving Hut Feast III (?) - Beginner Friendly · Fri. Oct. 21st, 2022 - Sun. Oct. 23rd, 2022
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Start: Friday, Oct. 21st, 4:00 pm
End: Sunday, Oct. 23rd, 8:00 pm
Pre-trip meeting: Tuesday, Oct. 18th, 6:00 pm
Pre-trip meeting location: zoom (will send link via email)
Description:
September 23 update: no longer a thanksgiving trip but everything else still applies!
Friendly VOC'ers, come gather in the mountains for a delightful long weekend of alpine exploration, cold polar plunging, #hutlife living, deep conversationing, friend making, potluck feasting, and warm hearted mulled wine drinking.
We'll be heading up to the Brian Waddington Hut, commonly known as Phelix, the largest of the VOC huts for this epic Thanksgiving trip. (Say what!?? I'm new to the VOC and we have our own huts? - That's right! In fact, we've got an entire four of them open to us and the public around the Coast Mountain Range).
The condensed syllabus for this trip has us driving up on Saturday morning, hiking the 10km / 1000m elevation to the hut, arriving, and heading out to explore. We'll keep exploring and merry making until Monday morning when we wake up at some point and eventually decide that we sadly have to return to civilization. [edit: we're actually leaving friday and returning sunday since the date changed]
Now, maybe you've already forgetten about the title of this trip. But if you haven't you could be wondering what is meant by 'Middle Earth'. Like, isn't that something to do with Lords and Rings and stuff? Well yeah. In fact, Phelix Hut is situated right in the middle of the Tolkein Range. From the hut, we have options to hike and scramble such mountains as Gandalf, Aragorn, Shadowfax, Frodo, and Peregrine. And it really does look and feel like middle earth too - but with substantially less orcs.
The trip is beginner friendly which means we will support people with any experience level! However, we can also split off into groups if people want to explore different areas around the hut.
Finally, if you need any more convincing, just check out these photos:
Note: this trip used to be run by Nathan Starzynski but he is currently biking across Canada and I thought the club should revive this tradition. The info on this page has been taken and adapted from Nathan's previous trip posts.
Posted: 2022-09-07 15:57:48
Last modified: 2022-10-17 13:09:01