Wheeler Hut Maintenance

Had a nice trip in to the Wheeler hut this past week to help my friend Sylvain with some hut maintenance. It ended up being mainly a work trip (which was more or less anticipated) and a lot less of a ski trip. We moved A LOT of snow to retrieve some buried firewood that was needed to replenish the wood pile so that the hut users would get through the winter. Plus we had a moral obligation to bring down some massive snow mushrooms that were threatening the wood shed and one side of the outhouse. Anyway.... a few beers were drank and many a game of crib was played by Silly and I, and also a couple of games of collaboration rummy, a new game we coined by playing the rules from a few different rummy games. We did manage to get out for a few turns on the Thursday before packing out our sleds full of garbage and gear, so that was nice. All in all a fun little adventure :)



The Wheeler Hut half buried from this years snow fall!

Brad and Earl moving out full latrine's. This was an oversight that occurred by not
 pumping out the outhouse this fall while the hut facilities were still, road accessible

Darren and Earl loading the latrine's to take them to the staging area for pump out

This was a half smile. It was difficult to put on a full smile
with the amount of snow that was left to be shoveled!

Earl down in the pit splitting wood.

Sylvain having a look at the chimney set up for
some maintenance that will have to be done

Brad driving the wedge into these monster rounds
of wood that were bucked this fall

Sylvain doing some creative climbing to summit
the outhouse to do some snow sawing

Sylavain taking a breather and assessing the situation

Earl and Silly sawing off the snow mushroom

The collapsed snow mushroom decommissioned the latrine temporarily

The rescued firewood and latrine storage area

Main kitchen area

Back entrance and gear drying room

Silly putting new brick liners in the main fireplace

View out the front door of the hut

The original fireplace from 1946

Main kitchen with stairs leading up to the loft and sleeping area