Looking back through some pictures of a fair few years ago I came across these two huts.
Any body recognise them
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Looking back through some pictures of a fair few years ago I came across these two huts.
Any body recognise them
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lower one could be snowflake hut in kaikoura, long gone now
Not bad @gonetropo dont know it by the name snowflake, it was in the Bluff stream, used to have newspaper plastered all over the inside.... made for interesting reading. It may have been a rabbitters hut I think.
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here's one I came across in october
Looks like Honk's hut Pureora Forest..
yea not many go there now..... track is pretty knackered little used and unmarked for the most part think even the goat cullers get choppered in to it
I do WISH people on here would put their TRUE Location
I personally think age and location should be "compulsary"
Prob get a smack for saying that :-( :mouse:
You wouldn't want to get too far off the track in there without a compass or gps either.. How's the inside of the hut mate? Still waterproof, stove still ok?
the stove is a pile of rust in a heap on the floor ......waterproof enough in an emergency.......the map i have with the track and location drawn on by hand was done well before gps .....and pretty accurate too
there isnt now.....only to the stream crossing ......
Attachment 81554this one isnt there any more as far as i know either
Attachment 81555or this one
What happened to them? The mid okahu hut got burnt down. Bit of a shame.
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got burnt down i hope whoever did it is in a life threatening situation one day and needs to use either of them
@johnd that first hut looks very much like HorseShoe Flat hut in lower Moerali but the hill behind is not big enough and not enough bush
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...04b927e029.jpgthis ones a bit past it
@chainsaw it is/was on the inland Kaikoura's. Dont know if many ever came across it, we were in there 10 yrs after it was built and the pots were still shiny
The amount of huts that DOC have destroyed is quite huge NZ wide ,includes rock bivs in areas that could save some poor sods life.
Yep always was dodgy- Especially in a Toyota Corona [emoji4]
But that’s why we love the great outdoors though isn’t it??? I pulled out a camper van there the other week, stuck in the sand basically in that creek, bloody tourists.
Just sad, every time we loose something like these huts we loose a large chunk of who we are and what some amazing people have done and seen in these areas...
but to blame H&S as a way to bulldoze huts is wrong.
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Just on that, there was a proposal to remove rock cairns or knock them over, they have saved life. Lets hope that common sense prevails.
Not with this lot in charge," woops"
Tetawa
Just the lot that will not see reason or have not come across anyone in a situation not realising what cairns represent ( Tin Range and the Whitcombe (Neave to the Pass) come to mind.
Anyone know of Otto lye?? Heard some crack up stuff about him. He's made a few bivvy in the Kawekas.
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I got told about one of them. The Kawekas are a bit of a drive so haven't been back to find it.
He has heaps of them scattered around the park. He has a special way of hiding the tracks to them. There'll be something out of place along a track and then 20 to 30 metres off the track there'll be a path. usually a tarp pond for water supply. The old fellas Hilton and Alan still mess with him by mucking around with the special signal and then find him and have a chat. They start cracking up when he rants on about the person who is moving things about.
Still going strong for an 80 or so year old.
That was the stuff that I remember off the top of my head.
Interested if anyone knows this hut. Mooseman is guna have to bite his tonque. Spent a heck of a lot of time here, meathunting, possuming, weekend hunting and hiding out of the weather. :cool:Attachment 84907
Forestry block on good tracks if you could get there in a two wheel drive Lux :D
Yeah Danny, in the 70s n 80s. Cool place.
You will know this one as well Danny. :pacman: Another old spot with heaps of good hunting area on the door step. Mooseman and I spent a lot of our early days building leg muscles around here.Attachment 84949
plateau hut ?
Hautapu has always been a favourite mainly cause of the good times with my Poppa and the deer in the area (Pukeroa) back then. Recently a couple of good boars.
Was up there Sunday and the Plateau. Heard one but in an unlikely spot.
Waipunga and the South was a great hang out for a sleep and a base also.
Great pictures guys.