WINTER TRAVELLERS: Make certain you have read about the winter travel particulars on the Wendy Thompson Homepage and below. Be prepared to routefind and navigate.
Useful Navigation and Routefinding Tools for Winter:
- Compass and/or GPS and skills to use either.
- An area-specific map. We recommend "Duffey Lake"1:50 000 by John Baldwin ISBN 978-0-9691550-5-8. Available from any fine outdoor store in the locale. The Wendy Thompson Hut is marked on this map.
- An area-specific guidebook. We recommend Exploring the Coast Mountains on Skis: A Guide to Ski Montaineering (Third Edition) by John Baldwin ISBN 978-0-9691550-3-4. Available from any fine outdoor store in the locale. See pages 128-131 specifically for hut details and recommended ski tours.
- Avalanche training. Appropriate levels would be CAC AST1 or equivalent.
- Weather forecast and avalanche forecast. See links in article below.
Map of General Pemberton-Duffey-Western Cayoosh Area
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All driving directions to the Wendy Thompson Hut Trailhead begin at the Petrocan Station in Pemberton. For up-to-the-hour remote weather station reports for the Duffey Lake Road, near the trailhead, navigate to the Cayoosh Summit MOH Remote Weather Station 1. From the Petrocan Station, drive east 6.9 km on Hwy 99 to Mount Currie (intersection by white church building)2. Turn right just north of church to remain on Hwy 99 (to Lillooet); follow this road for 10 km until a dirt road branches right (Lillooet Lake Road) 3. Ignore right and stay on Hwy 99, which begins to switchback up into the hills above Lillooet Lake for 16.9 km. 4. Continue past Joffre Lake parking area on Hwy 99 about 7.7 km to a bridge which crosses Cayoosh Creek. 5. Just past the bridge, Hwy 99 hooks left and then curves slowly right until it comes to a Ministry of Highways salt shed. 6. Park across the road from the MOH salt shed. This parking lot is normally cleared daily. |  |
Conditions for access to the hut are now full winter:A note on WAYPOINTS and WINTER TRAVEL: Please note that winter access will be different than the summer GPS waypoints posted. There is a Challenging ATES rating to the easiest winter route to the cabin: users should be aware that they are responsible for navigating the easiest route to the hut in winter conditions and that this still puts the party in Challenging terrain. Avalanches can and do cross this route periodically, so all precautions for travelling in avalanche terrain should be in place. The orange-marked route into the Wendy Thompson Hut marks the summer hiking trail only. No winter route is marked, though portions of the summer route might be appropriate for access under favourable winter conditions. If you don't feel able to navigate and routefind in avalanche terrain under forecast conditions, you might consider the use of a guide to lead your group to the hut. We would be happy to recommend ACMG Assistant or Full Ski Guides or Mountain Guides for you if this is the case. Call 604 902-1772 if you need help in this regard. Directions for Winter Travel:1. Follow the north edge of Hwy 99 west for less than a hundred metres to an obvious three metre wide clearing that turns right and heads north.
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