Waaihoek[1] is the name of a peak at one of the vertices of a very large (8000ha), remote, rugged and mountainous rural property called Zuurberg[2] ("Sour Mountain"), located about 60 km north-east of Cape Town, on the margin of a great sandstone massif known as the Hex River Mountains.
The name is pronounced 'Vye hook', where vye rhymes with eye.
Snow often falls in winter and lies on the ground for a few weeks between July and September, when members of the UCTMSC have in past years operated a private ski tow in the vicinity of Waaihoek Peak.
Both were built by students, who carried most of the materials up the mountain on their backs.
The older and smaller structure, built before the Second World War, is called Pells Hut.