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Range Hierarchy: Pacific Cordillera / Coast Mountains / Pacific Ranges / Squamish-Cheakamus Divide
Region Hierarchy: BC Coast South / Coast-Chilcotin / Pemberton Icecap
November 26, 2005 (1 days)
Participants: Greg Stoltmann, Robin Tivy, Betsy Waddington, Steve Grant, Linda Billy
Abstract: A useful description of how to find and follow the new trail to the new Brew Hut.
Late Friday night, we decided to pay a visit to the new VOC hut near Mount Brew. Various Bivouac/VOC members had constructed a new trail, so we had to check it out. I still remember constructing the first Brew Hut in 1982, (which was crushed by snow creep in the first winter). And I had been to the second hut several times, so it only seemed right that I should visit the third hut. As you may know, the Mount Brew area is a fairly gentle plateau like ridge that sticks eastward from the Mount Fee and Cypress Peak area, which is the end of the "Powder Cap" traverse.
I want to make this description as useful as possible, so I'll put in all the driving instructions and road references.
We drove up highway 99 from Vancouver and turned west onto the Chance Creek FSR. This road was completely clear of snow, and we were soon at the junction where we turned north on the Roe Creek Road. We hit shallow snow at 2200' which never got more than 15 cm deep, and was no problem for Greg's luxurious 4WD Isuzu Trooper. After a while we came to the intersection with a branch road going east. We were confused thinking it might be the Branch 200 that we wanted. But a quick check with the GPS told us it was not the correct road. After another 5-10 minutes of so we reached the proper intersection with Branch 200 at 936m (3070 feet).
There was one set of tire tracks ahead of us. We drove for a short distance up the steep Branch 200. This section had fairly deep cross ditches, and we dragged the trailer hitch on every crossing. Soon we reached the impassable ditch which was mentioned in the previous road bulletins. Here we found the Jeep Cherokee already parked, and we parked just below it.
There wasn't enough snow to start skiing right away, so we put our skis on our packs and hiked up the road, past the first switchback, and then reached the trailhead, marked by dozens of yellow ribbons. (which prompted some singing of "Tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree..." from the time of Richard Nixon.
The trail heads back eastward through the clearcut until it reaches the dark old growth. The clearcut is now grown in with cedar trees about 4 m high. Once in the old growth, it was occasionally difficult to find the next yellow ribbon, provoking an observation that yellow is not the ultimate color. The snow was packed like concrete. Only occasionally would you break through. Soon we were at the first creek, where the trail abruptly turns 90 degrees and goes up the fall line. Greg and I momentarily lost the trail here. But soon enough we found it and arrived below the prominent cliff bands. Here we followed the trail eastward again, till it wrapped around the cliffs and went north, up the big creek drainage. This is the big creek on the 1:50,000 that is due south of Brew Lake. The trail just follows the west side of this creek. In this section of trail, I had a bit more problem punching through, which prompted me to put my skis on and off several times. We soon met the two BCMC members who came in the Jeep. They had MSR snowshoes, which were ideal for this terrain, costing about 100-200 dollars.
Eventually the trail leaves the creek, and goes west up a steep little slope and emerges above treeline. Everybody then put their skis on, and soon we were zooming along. It was so foggy you couldn't see much, but there was an increasingly deep cover of fresh powder. These meadows are immediately south of Brew Lake. From here the route went on the west side of the lake, and heads west. The final climb to the cabin is up a short hill and through a notch, and then the cabin is immediately east of us.
After dutifully reading and signing the log book and inspecting the library, we skied a few short slopes beside the cabin, then headed down. The skiing was really great, with 15 cm of fresh powder covering a bombproof base layer. Very soon we were back in the trees, where everybody took their skis off. The walking was very good, and we were back at the car well before dark.
Associated Road/Trail Bulletins
Chance Creek FSR
Roe Creek Branch R200
Roe Creek road
Waypoints: Geo-WGS84 UTM-WGS84 UTM-NAD27c Help
50:00.5-123:12.1=Park (3250 feet) washout
50:00.4-123:11.6=Trail starts from logging spur (Yellow Ribbons)
50:00.4-123:11.3=First small creek (trail turns up fall line) 3600'
50:00.5-123:11.1=Below Rock Face 3780'
50:00.5-123:11.0=Trail stays below cliffs until in water course 3850'
50:00.5-123:10.9=1st small pond, trail in open 4020'
50:00.9-123:10.8=Clearing, continuing below cliff band 4210'
50:00.9-123:10.8=Below bluff #3
50:01.0-123:10.8=bottom of Talus slope
50:01.1-123:10.8=start of meadow system
50:01.2-123:10.8=more meadows
50:01.2-123:10.9=notch joins from west
50:01.3-123:10.9=cross small creek to East side?
50:01.5-123:11.0=More meadows
50:01.7-123:11.0=End of yellow flagging at SW shore of Brew Lake
50:02:24-123:11:33=Brew Hut
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more Brew Hut info by Rick Raymond
November 26, 2005 (2 days)
Abstract: Added waypoints
Silvia and I headed up the Roe Creek Ski route to the Brew hut for an overnight trip. Since we had never been up there before, we followed the waypoints from the VOC Wiki website. Robin and his group passed us on the trail and since Robin has already posted a great trip report I wont say much here. After the yellow flagging ended, we had the tracks from Robin's group to follow. The route they chose worked out very well so I added some waypoints to the Wiki page waypoints to make a more complete set for traveling in poor visibility conditions.
Waypoints: Geo-WGS84 UTM-WGS84 UTM-NAD27c Help
50.00741-123.19485=Trailhead on R200, start of yellow flags
50.00694-123.19333=Enter Old Growth Forest
50.00666-123.18882=Just below creek crossing
50.00788-123.18341=In bowl
50.00848-123.18281=In bowl #2
50.00891-123.18238=top of bowl
50.01105-123.18138=end of a small draw below bluff #2
50.01314-123.17988=Reenter forest after going below bluff #2
50.01437-123.18047=Below bluff #3
50.01630-123.18055=bottom of Talus slope
50.01893-123.18041=start of meadow system
50.01928-123.18069=more meadows
50.01999-123.18171=notch joins from west
50.02109-123.18210=cross small creek to East side?
50.02450-123.18302=More meadows
50.02789-123.18358=End of yellow flagging at SW shore of Brew Lake
50.02995-123.18750=Left toward hut
50.03302-123.19217=Turn right
50.03395-123.19169=Turn toward hut
50.03670-123.19318=Around hill toward notch
50.03956-123.19256=Notch turn right to hut
50.04002-123.19125=Brew Hut |
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