Archive:Brew Hut Nov 23 2008

	Old Trip
	This is the sign up and organization page for an old trip. It already happened. Please do not sign up for it.

Synopsis

Veenstra is organizing a beginner 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.

Date

The trip meeting is Wednesday November 19st, 6:00pm, in the clubroom

The trip is November 22^nd - 23^rd, 2008

Equipment List

or see Gear_lists#ski_hut_trip

Please consult the above links for all information regarding proper skiing clothing and gear. In winter especially, none of your clothing should be made out of cotton. Anything wool or synthetic is probably safe. Just remember, Cotton Kills.

Stuff you need from the club probably includes:

• Skis (bindings are adjustable, ask when you pick them up, make sure they fit your boots)
• Skins (ask the QM - they let your skis go uphill, quite necessary for this trip. Make sure they fit your skis)
• Boots (make sure they fit your feet, and your skis)
• Poles
• Shovel
• Probe
• Avy transceiver

Sign Up

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Nominal capacity is 12, and the most I've ever seem the hut hold was 16 (it was crowded). Let's try and keep enough hut space for the beginners, and those looking after them.

Signup for hut space

Trip leaders (email me first)

1. Veenstra
2. Line
3. Lee Wasilenko
4. Sandra Nicol
5. Scott Webster (AST-2, better at skiing when there is snow)
6. (Evan, will sign up during the unloced period)

Beginners (please indicate skill level - both skiing and avalanche)

1. Laura Catton - beginner at telemark skiing and avalanche (haven't done AST-1 yet), intermediate at epicness, expert at wiki sign-up
2. Ignacio R (complete backcountry noob, moderate tolerance to pain, wouldn't mind sharing a tent)
3. Anne Webster (AST-1, intermediate skier in resorts, not so good in backcountry conditions)
4. Jack Montpellier (cross-country skiing once - no avalanche course)
5. Eliza Boyce - very rusty crosscountry and avalanche skills - effectively beginner
6. Breanne Johnson (intermediate skier, beginner at telemark, no AST-1 yet)
7. Kate Robinson (intermediate skier, beginner at telemark, no AST-1 yet)
8. Bob Lai (can tent if needed, AST1)
9. Greta
10. Benjamin Webb
11. Eleanor H (fair but of on track cross country experience but no back country, some v basic avalanche training)

The limit is 11 "beginners."

People who signed up before the sign up was open

1. Ran Z (How can one sign-up before the sign-up was open? so the signup must be open then. )

Waitlist

1. Sarah Long
2. Sophia Toft-Moulton

About tents...

If you would still like to come, you can bring a tent - but it must be a 4-season mountaineering tent. The hut is on a very windy col, and a 3 season tent will likely not survive. You are also not encouraged to plan on a snowcave without bringing a tent backup. The snow close to the hut is usually poor for snowcaving (if there is enough - this is November) and we will likely arrive well after dark (at winter longhike the days are substantially longer, and most beginners take the better part of a day to build theirs).

Extra space on the trip for people with tents will depend on the number of experienced people who are coming with tents.

experienced tenters

1. Madeleine MP

Rides

Please indicate here if you have a car, where you are leaving from and how many people you can transport.

Veenstramobile, leaving from Dunbar and 21st

1. Veenstra
2. Line
3. Ben W
4. Ignacio
5. 
   

Carless People

For people that don't have a car

• Name, leaving location