Thread: Heli sika dropping multiple parties into the same block

Originally Posted by DavidGunn

Flew into Te Pukeohikarau one time, 4 of us had the hut to ourselves, by the time the sun went down there were 13 of us in the 6 bunk hut...a bit of top-n-tail bunking for a few days...another tramping party called in at sunset and decided to push on to the next hut, Harkness, I think, we didn't tell them that we had already flown there on our way in and hut was full.

Back when Hamish had Helisika he dropped us off at the Oamaru for a couple of days until he could get us up to Te Matai due to weather conditions, a woman at the hut informed us that the hut was divided into male and female dormitories and there was no room for us as all male bunks were taken and she and her daughter were in female dormitory...soon got told of top-n-tail for her kids and mixed gender for bunk rooms...I think she sat up all night keeping an eye on sleeping hunters and trampers.

When we used to fixed wing fly in the helicopters used to fly straight down the valleys, now that the blocks are chopper only they fly the block boundaries...so I noticed in the North Arm a couple of weeks ago.

The arrogance of trampers in the bush never ceases to amaze me.
Once got told in the middle of winter that I couldn't come into a hut because there was only a group of female trampers in it.

It's almost as if they think they own the place. Yet nearly every hut and track was made by cullers and hunter's.