Backcountry Trip in Pemberton

VOCO members, I'm keen to do a trip to Pemberton again this year to meet up with the VOC club and stay in their legendary Phelix Hutt.
The hutt only sleeps 25 people, so this means only 5 of us can go from our club, since their club is much larger. Last year, 5 of us went and had a blast! The hutt is a post and beam style, made with heavy lumber that was flown in via helicopter, funded by MEC- piece by piece! It is tucked away above the woods in a little backcountry bowl, about 5km from the end of a logging road. However, we learned the hard way, and in the winter it turns out to be a 10km tour into the hutt, half on logging road, half through pristine wilderness and subalpine furr.
Once into the valley where the hutt is located, there is a goldmine of incredible faces to snowboard/ski down, and the powder was lushious! The hut is warm and friendly, and after a long day of touring in, we had a good ol' shake down in the kitchen area of the hutt. Someone brought a fiddle and a banjo, a guitar and an egg shaker, one of our club members brought 4lbs of fondu cheese, 1 1/ltrs of wine, and a 6 pack of beer! There were drinks to be had, songs to be sung, dances to dance, and much laughing and bonding with the Vancouver club members.
They are an experienced club, and it was interesting to see how they run their trips.
The following day, we got up early and spent the entire morning and early afternoon digging pits and skinning up the slopes surrounding the little snow-burried hutt. We began to make our decent around 2pm or so back to the cars 10km below us. We were exhausted!
We stopped in Squamish for the night (Sunday) to sleep and made our way back to Kelowna the following morning. It is a long drive there and back, but worth every minute of the journey. It is a journey and an experience. The snow is different, the terrain is different and the people were different- all made for a well rounded trip!
So, if anyone wants to go, let me know and I've got all the details, etc. I'm just missing the car to get there, so if anyone has wheels and wants to go, thats awesome- we can all pitch in for gas.

The trip is Feb. 28-March 1st, but I would suggest leaving on the Friday Feb. 27th whenever people are finished class, and making the drive that night. We camped on the Friday night in a stump field, also known as a clearcut, located only 10 mintues away from the trail head. This would be a Friday afternoon-Monday afternoon trip, unless you're all troopers and want to drive back to Kelowna on the Sunday night- but I have a feeling people wont want to even move their eyelids. This is a rewarding and exhausting trip- to cover 20km in 2 days of touring is respectable! Snowboarders, RENT A SPLITBOARD! Strongly suggested, as I made the mistake of thinking snowshoeing that distance was cool- not cool.
Anyways, think about it!
Friday Feb. 27- Monday March 2nd- Pemberton Touring Trip with VOC to Phelix Hutt!!
Depending on vehicle use, we can only bring up to 5 people due to hutt size, 4 would be comfortable due to gear space in vehicles-but I'm sure wecould manage to squeeze 6 if anyone has a van!
Contact me at sammieb7@hotmail.com if you're interested.

Cheers,
Sam Brett