The weather has cleared by the time we
drive up the Duffy Lake Road - hard not to notice that the snow line
is high for this time of year - and park opposite the sand shed.
There is a rough cut track that leads from the parking area to the
logging road, but we do not find it until we are on the way back.
The logging road, like most in this
area, gains only a modicum of elevation so it definitely won't be a
quick luge run out. Within a couple of hundred metres of the road,
we find this "fixer upper in a highly desirable location ready
for your own design touches or use as an investment property."
At the end of the road we get on a
trail that snakes through deep forest. For some reason, the track
gains and loses elevation a number of times. Combined with the deep
tree wells, melted out deadfall and other spring skiing hazards, it
is slow going - at least for us.
After a couple of kilometres we cross
the bottom of an avalanche slope and shortly after reach a small
lake. There is a final easy climb beyond the lake and we arrive at
the hut. The hut is well equipped and clean. Somehow, I expected
these busy huts to suffer from all the woes that befell the
Bonnington Huts with left behind food, tea candles, and other little
piles of junk. But, it is clean and neat.
We eat lunch on the steps where it is
warm with the sun out, and cool with it in. Another skier arrives
while we are drinking tea. We manage, just, to ski all the way out
with skins off, but we have to shuffle, side-step and herringbone a
fair bit.
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