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2 Brew 2 Debacle - [Beginner Friendly*] · Sat. Nov. 23rd, 2024 - Sun. Nov. 24th, 2024
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Start: Saturday, Nov. 23rd
End: Sunday, Nov. 24th
Pre-trip meeting: Wednesday, Nov. 20th, 7:00 pm
Pre-trip meeting location: IRC 4
Description:
Brew Debacle is an annual VOC ski trip run in late November. The premise is simple: make your way up to Brew Hut for a nice shoulder season winter camping experience. In practice, it is anything but simple. Sometimes VOCers don't even make it to the hut! But why? What makes this such a debacle? I myself have asked this question many times. The best answer I have received is that you can't go looking for the debacle... the debacle finds you. This summary from the 2010 Brew Debacle trip posting sums it up nicely:
"Lisa is organizing a beginner friendly skiing trip to the Brew Hut. People interested in participating should probably have some winter camping skills, have carried an over night pack and have been on backcountry skis before or be very keen/tough/willing to suffer a bit. The last point is key - if you don't mind suffering and are in reasonable shape, I'll make sure you make it to the hut.
In fact, that's the whole point. This should be a trip in the classic VOC skiing style - a bunch of keen VOCers, never having been on tele skis before, will tough their way up to the hut and discover that (despite the suffering) they really love the mountains in winter. Exchange students who've never seen snow before are ideal, and this is probably the best place to start if you want to be skiing across the Garibaldi Neve this spring (this, or one of Roland's Red Heather trips...).
Past trips of this style have taken anywhere from 4 to 17.5 hours to reach the hut (in the good old days before GPSs sometimes they didn't find the hut at all). Days are short and the snow is fluffy - so put your headlamp at the top of your pack."
In essence, this is a classic VOC beginner-friendly trip. You are encouraged to step out of your comfort zone and come skiing to Brew! It will be hard, it may involve suffering, but you will not be left behind, and when completed, you will feel like you can take on the world.
This trip will require participants to take the free avysavvy course online beforehand, or (preferably) have taken an AST 1 course
I hope to see you all in November, because a debacle is brewing...
Posted: 2024-10-21 21:36:31
Last modified: 2024-11-18 15:05:06