Do not stay here!
There were several issues with this hut, but the main one is that they just installed a composting toilet and the entire hut smells like a disgusting outhouse. It was absolutely revolting! And there's no escape - you are stuck with the smell for as long as you are staying there. The worst part about this is that a properly installed and maintained composting toilet should not smell. A primary issue is they cheaped out on the sawdust - they only had a little bag in there and were instructing guests to put a tiny (1/4 cup?) scoop in with each use. This is wrong! You need a big 2 cup scoop at least, and there is no way these people installed this toilet without knowing this. Instead, they decided to save themselves a few hundred bucks a year and have all their guests stay in a nauseating cabin. They also did a poor job of installing the venting through the roof, it wasn't properly sealed so the poo smell leaked right into the cabin anyways. They even knew it smelled bad, because they put a little air blocker on the bottom of the bathroom door. Honestly I can't even conceive how these people thought it was ok to know that the hut smells absolutely disgusting and then continue to rent it out for $300/night and not do anything meaningful to fix the problem. On top of this, the hut's construction is kind of slipshod, we had to repair one of the windows ourselves and the general assembly is not great. The bedrooms were laughable. There are 2 bedrooms and they are both tiny, one of them has 2 bunk beds shoved in so tight that you can barely get the door open, and to climb into the second bunk bed, top or bottom, is actually kind of impossible unless you are a tiny acrobat. There is nowhere to put your stuff in the second bedroom because they chose to shove it full of beds, so you have to leave it all on the floor outside the room. So yeah the hut "sleeps 8" so they can charge more, but at the expense of having the bedrooms be useful. They also did not mention that there is no running water in the winter - their website kind of implies it when they say "fully stocked kitchen" so I assumed they had a well/winter water source, but they do not. So everything is 10x harder when you have to get snow and melt it using their crappy pot on the wood stove. At least upgrade the pot to make good thermal contact with the stove to speed up the melting time! The approach was fine, the skiing around the hut isn't very good - mostly not very steep (so quite boring) but surprisingly high avalanche danger anyways - convex rolls all over the place, or terrain traps if you go into the basin. Overall, I feel completely ripped off and would never stay there again. That's capitalism, baby! Cut every available corner to maximize profit. read more