2016-2017 Hut and Trail Maintainence

Phelix 2016

Work Hikes
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[*] Start Date - End Date - Trip Leader - Work Type - Minimum Participants Needed - Special Skills Needed - Link to Trip Details Page - Link to Trip Report - Link to Gallery
[*] ie. 2016.05.01 - 2016.05.04 - George Hill - Infrastructure & Inventory - Minimum 2 persons - No special skills needed - Trip Details and Sign Up - Trip Report - Gallery
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Hut Infrastructure
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[*] Our voluntary Grizzly closure is Aug 15 - Oct 15. We should remember that these are bad times to do hut work. Or maybe not. We have been ignoring it lately.
[*] We should think about the animals, marmots, porcupines, mice or whatever, and more recently, birds, that are eating some of our structures. Carry up mesh in the spring/summer and find the holes where creatures are getting under the hut and eating the floor.
[*] Outhouse door does not close
[*] Investigate heating solutions to deal with mould
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Hut Inventory & Management
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[*] Bring up a working catalytic heater, a second Coleman stove and, a second Coleman Lamp for light and a bit of heat.
[*] The usual hauling of accumulated garbage, should happen.
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Trail Work
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[*] Trail needs to be cleared of alder again using the death machine. The section between the second bridge and the end of the clear cut
[*] What used to be a rough bushwack line up to the second lake now has a well developed footbed complete with muddy disasters where it goes through swampy sections. The responsible thing to do would be to cut a new trail up to the second lake, just inside the forest, or at least that goes around the "meadows" (swampy bits).
[*] A few well placed 2x12" boards could go a long way on the cross ditches
[*] Rock Slide across the access road is passable but could use some further work.
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[size=large]Harrison 2016[/size]

Hut Infrastructure
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[*] Total new floor for hut
[*] Commercial steel door for hut
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Hut Inventory & Management
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[*] Haul down some of the tools that have been left up at the hut
[*] Get rid of surplus sheet metal
[*] Firewood gathering
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Trail Work
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[*] Improve creek crossing at hut by rearranging boulders
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[size=large]Brew 2016[/size]

Hut Infrastructure
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[*] Fix the outhouse floor which is apparently collapsing into the outhouse.
[*] Remove soot from walls, scrub down cooking bench
[*] Replace kerf weatherstrip and vinyl sweep on hut door,from Dunbar Lumber. It's up there.
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Hut Inventory & Management
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[*] "Burn toilet paper" bucket needs a plan for what to do when it becomes full of charred poo, etc.
[*] Get rid of surplus sheet metal
[*] Improve the solar lighting to make it more efficient
[*] Attach new LED in front of mirror.
[*] Cut/bring lots of chopped wood into piles near the trailhead and ask people to carry a load up over the summer.
[*] Gather up the scattered firewood, and see if we can cut up some of the dead stuff instead of getting in another expensive helicopter load
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Trail Work
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[*] Decommissioning road to Brew at R200 turnoff. Will stop cars from accessing Brew, but not cat skiing. Will no longer be maintained. Need someone to call logging company to confirm. Someone on Club Tread called, but VOC should call too since we have vested interest in keeping that road active/maintained.
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[size=large]Sphinx 2016[/size]

Hut Infrastructure
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[*] Check door can close in summer, won't close properly this winter but may be due to ice (looks like just the door handle needs work)
[*] Roof is fairly ok, small leaks do not land on the occupants. Might eventually re-do roof with corrugated steel.
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Hut Inventory & Management
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[*] Need a piece of thinwall tubing and a reflective marker so we can find the outhouse when the snow is deep
[*] Some dead Coleman appliances, cutlery, etc is accumulating up there. This stuff should be hauled out.
[*] People should carry up: spare Coleman lamp mantels, a recent VOC journal, a fuel can for fuel donations. (these things were missing in July 2013)
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Lizzie Lake 2016

Hut Infrastructure
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[*] Apply for tenure of the land surrounding the Lizzie Cabin (In progress so far as I am aware)
[*] Gather information and develop and action plan. The only picture I have of the cabin is undated from bivouac where it seems the cabin is completely falling apart.
[*] Known to house mice
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Hut Inventory & Management
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[*] Gather information and develop and action plan.
[*] Current inventory in unknown condition: coleman stove, lantern (burns white gas), a wood stove, various axes, saws
[*] As of January 2016 no firewood is up at the hut. The trail work listed below could result in some nearby firewood.
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Trail Work
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[*] The trail is mostly an old logging road that is no longer driveable because some crucial bridges are missing and there is a major washout (with bypass trails) at km one.
[*] Rejuvenate the road as a hiking trail, mow down a lot of slide alder, cut a bunch of windfall, hang trail markers, and rebuild a couple of log bridges.
[*] Further brush saw work, and chain saw work, would be worth while.
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