Hike to the Brew Hut

I did my first proper hike in Canada. I went up with the VOC (Varsity Outdoor Club). The hike started at about 800m and we got up to about 1700m where the new Brew hut is. We were surprised how much snow was there, sometimes about 40cm. The Brew hut is between Squamish and Whistler on the left side of the road. The hut was build by people of the VOC this year, we did some more work on it. We left Vancouver at about 5am ... it was good fun.

a map where we had to drive first

our hike started behind the lake where the road does a right turn

and so we started to hike

sometime it was similar to the hike I have done in sweden, called the Sörmlandsleden hike next to Stockholm

we got a bit higher and had to go through a steeper part

view down, autumn

and soon we had to walk in snow covered area

trees and sun

hiking through the forest again

more snow

nice lookout (well, a lot of clouds)

we had a stop at the brew lake, ate something and hiked further towards the hut

walking along the lake

we had to cross a creek

hiking through knee deep snow

finally we reached the hut

happy to be there

get the snow off the door

starting the oven

the hut from far away

starting to do the work

here is a map of the area, well, we didn't do this track but you can see the brew lake which we passed

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