Stanley Mitchell Hut - Facilities

Facilities

The Stanley Mitchell hut is a 1 1⁄₂-storey log building. The hut consists of a large kitchen area and a living/dining room with tables, seats and a wood burning stove. It has a good supply of tools including water buckets, axes, saws, shovels, etc.

The hut sleeps 24 in summer and 20 in winter. The sleeping quarters have 4-inch-thick (100 mm) covered foam mattresses and are in a small room on the main floor and a large upstairs loft. Sleeping arrangements are dormitory-style, on two long bunks (bring earplugs!).

The hut is lit by several propane lights. It has a wood-burning stove for heating and drying clothes. Firewood is stored behind the hut. Please replace all firewood you use in the hut with cut and split wood from the pile.

The kitchen is well supplied with dishes, cutlery, utensils, pots and pans and bake ware (including roasting pans, cookie sheets, coffee percolator, bread pans and muffin pans). There is a full size propane oven, as well as some two-burner propane stoves for cooking. Propane is supplied by the Alpine Club via a large outdoor tank. Drinking water is available from a small stream fed by Kiwetinok lake (a day hike) running through the meadow 60 m south of the hut. It is advisable to boil or treat the water before drinking it. In the winter you can dig down to the creek or melt snow for water.

Grey water disposal is in a ground sump next to the hut. Grey water can be drained directly down the sinks, but it is important to ensure that the strainer is in place under the drain. Food scraps (including coffee grounds) should not be allowed to enter the grey water sump or it will become plugged. Periodically, the strainer contents should be emptied into the fireplace. The grey water sump occasionally freezes in the winter, in which case the grey water (strained of food particles) should be dumped within a three meter radius of the outhouse.

The outhouse is located 30 m west of the front door of the main hut. No garbage should be dumped in the outhouse. All paper garbage and food scraps should be burned, and all other garbage and unused food should be packed out.