Brew Hut: Classic Whiteout

On the May long weekend Christian had been hoping to do a speed traverse. He has been planning this trip for years, but the conditions, weather, and full moon have never lined up. As the weekend was getting closer it looked like this was also not going to be the weekend for it. Instead we decided on a last minute trip to Brew Hut Sunday-Monday. We have all been there many times before, this was in fact F fourth trip to Brew Hut. Two of our friends, Lea Z and Scott W,  joined us for a casual 9am leaving time from Vancouver. We had an unusual number of F related stops on the drive, but was still on the trail just past noon. 

F quickly decided that she wanted to hike by herself, and she proceeded to hike for almost 3 hours. She liked climbing up the steep sections and slipping and sliding on the snow. Once she finally declared that she was done hiking we took a way point. She had hiked about 1 km (about 1/4 of the trail), which is pretty good on a rough trail. We were pretty proud of her perseverance. I thought that she was going to fall asleep in the carrier right away, but instead she was just singing. Once in the meadows she declared that she wanted to hike again, so we let her hike on the snow. It only lasted a few hundred meters before she again wanted to go in the carrier. This time she promptly fell asleep and stayed a sleep until 30 min after arriving at the hut. 

We arrived at the hut almost 5 hours after starting the hike. The meadows and the hut was engulfed in a classic Brew whiteout, but Christian and Lea still decided that it worth a couple of runs. ​ ​A group of 10 VOCers and two others had already gone up  to the hut the previous night, so it was a full hut. Fortunately a few of them moved downstairs, so we could have a couple of spots on the loft. The evening was spend singing songs and reading old VOC journals. F was mostly observing, I think she was pretty tired. The night worked out great, the hut was super (too?) warm and F was quiet all night long.

Monday morning I skied up Malt Peak with Scott while Christian and F played outside the cabin. She spend a lot of time circumnavigating the cabin and sliding down a little snow bank. I think they also got a few ski runs in. Back at the cabin I packed up and we skied out.