Plateau hut, yep.
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Plateau hut, yep.
Have you fullas bumped into this hut, I came across it while doing possums in the above areas. Attachment 84972
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Cool pics, I nearly had to crash at the Trig (tin) hut last year as the weather closed in...
Yeh she's a bit of a rat haven but it still is a dry spot when the weather is shit. Have to catch up some time Danny we could have a good time chatting about the area.
You are sure a lucky guy Danny. If you had stayed the night in Trig hut the rats would of chewed the skin of your feet and eaten ya nose. :P
The huts I posted are in the order posted , Saddle Hut , North Waipunga, South Waipunga, Trig Hut and The Old Te Iringa Hut in the Kaimanawa's, all are gone bar Trig Hut.
Packed out a good boar off there about 6 years back. God, help my brokenass!
All three of these boars were caught within 1 km of the Plateau hut, Trig and Hautapu huts. Best being 204lb. Bloody good tusks up on native edges.
I miss the deer numbers these days.
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The Plateau and Waipuna were without pine trees when I spent my time there.
You must have ground ur teeth down as much as me tetawa. Spent some time battling through the monowai and tea tree to get to the native aswell. :thumbsup:
Here’s one for you guys. The old Manson hut.
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Interesting pic with Dick Hart slashed into the woodwork,,was a culler of course and now Jason his son is running a goat culling crew around the country. Some of you North dudes probably know him,nice bloke and damn good at his job.
Just out of interest Jason is also our Secretary for the NZ Deer cullers Inc.
I hadnt seen this thread before. I used to hunt a lot from Pukeroa through Central Whirinaki, Te Taumutu, Upper Whirinaki and Plateau during the mid 1960"s. Cullers were still in Kaingaroa in those days but I liked Central- Te taumutu ( which I nicknamed christmas creek), which used to be like parkland then. Nothing left of Pukeroa now but I noticed a bivvy on the edge toward old hautapu site on the bush edge a couple of years ago. Ive been wondeting if it can be legally driven to during fire season on the old pukeroa road. ( My knees are pretty buggered to walk far these days.
@Danny should be able to point you in the right direction, haven't been there for 45 years.
Yep the road is still accessible as long as you obviously come via Waipunga or South Rds. The Waipunga end in best to access those spots as the Pukeroa end has deliberately been left (Douglas fur overgrown) and the roads aren’t flash... not like the old days in my Grandfathers Toyota Corona - 60kms around corners looking for deer and rabbits. He was a mad but likeable bugger.
It’s quite a maze through there these days as it’s all been cutover and it looks a way different year to year but it’s great to get to those spots. I tent by the old Hautapu hut, not because it’s nice because it ain’t! but because it has some lovely memories for me and no doubt way more for you old as buggers [emoji6]
The Forest is open soon (hopefully) so that cuts an hour off the drive through to those iconic spots.
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Came across this dero hut a couple of years ago. A bit of love and it would be good again! Attachment 135611
Concrete fire place even. Time to adopt it I think.
Felt old reading this thread , couldn’t tell you how many times I walked past or stayed in Te Iringa Hut and I don’t have one picture of it , old pic here of Waipunga , and a new one to recognise that is now gone Attachment 135624
In the 1980s, took my boat down to Waikaremoana one roar, and camped on a beach under Panekiri. Poking around the lake edge in the boat, and I followed a smallish stream up which spilled into the lake. Pushed through some thickish growth overhanging the stream, and lo and behold, found a small jetty built of manuka stakes. A ladder led from the water up to the jetty decking. From the jetty, we spotted a neat little hut complete with a pot belly stove and a couple of bunks. As it was cold, we shifted camp and moved in to the hut. When my mate asked what would happen if the owner arrived while we were there, I said we'd ask if he had a permit and resource consent for the structure.....
Came home with 2 good stags, shot metres from the lake edge (and boat!). Fookin' luxury!
Tribute to a true outsider Westies hut , Southland . LOOK IT UP ON GOOGLE ,it's a great read ..
After living in his hut at Prices Harbour for around eight years, Westy left to 'hutsit' for extended periods in other huts along the South Coast. His last one was a private hut at Te Wae Wae Bay before retiring around age 70 to live back in Invercargill, where his daughter, 'Burt' lived.
When DOC got wind Westies 'private and unlicensed' hut had been abandoned, they began making plans to demolish it. If outdoor enthusiasts (and helicopter pilot) Cliff and Ann McDermott of Invercargill hadn't put in an 11th hour bid to save it in July 2007, offering to upgrade it at their own expense, DOC would have gone in and torn it down, burn what they could on a big bonfire on the beach and haul out the non-burnables by helicopter.
McDermott's application to bring the hut up to DOC standards required first a geologists report to make sure the cave was actually safe from potential rockfalls. The final report listed many changes to the hut, like removing the wood range which was in a bad state or repair.
Westy had gone to great lengths to seal the buildings from draughts, using left over rolls of wallpaper to line the walls and ceilings. Acknowledging that some compromise had to be made for a hut that could provide emergency shelter along an exposed coast, DOC relented to retaining the flammable wallpaper which gives this structure an absolutely unique protective feeling. Quite possibly the only fully wallpapered back country hut in all New Zealand!
RIP Westy, a real legend.
Every hunter in NZ should know this one. Sitting on the bunk in here gave me a warm feeling of being at home. Highly recommend visiting while it's still there, complete with all the names in pencil underneath the bunk posts. Prices Flat hut Whitcombe River.
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johnd,s original post in Jan 18 kicking off this thread.Pretty sure the first happy snap is of the NZFS Jam Hut in Jam Stream,T.R. Clarence Blk. The background steep weetbix country should jog memories
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This is the original Ruahine Corner Hut when i first went there must have been late 1970s.
You can see frame for new hut nearby, this a photo of my original so date not correct
Very close @bluebaiter222 , but I will give its secret location.
Its the Muzzle hut in the Muzzle stream.
If you look on a map it was / is situated at the fork in the stream.
Back when I took this picture in around 1980 the hut was still like new, the matresses were in good nick and the billies and pots all clean as.
Mein Fuhrer of the day Les Battersby told us before we went in.
"oh yeah I have shot Chamy from the door"
Well we were sitting on a log outside the hut having a break when someone says
"Dont look now but I think theres three Chamy looking down at us"
Bugger me!
The hut was a trick to find as it was tucked back in behind trees on the stream junction. Also I guess being on the Bluff Station at the time made poor access for Joe Blogs and it was probably a 6 hr drive in if you had permission. The cullers would have used it I guess, but they seemed to concentrate more on the seaward range.
It sure was step country, we used to grow our eyebrows long just to hang on when sidling :pacman: ( an old saying from back in the day)
Anyone who has hunted the Hihitahi bush near Taihape will know Zekes hut ,it has been replaced by a flash new one now.
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Here's the new one.
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Hey Shearer thanks for posting that, the new hut is definatly an upgrade but i have a lot of good memories from staying in the old Zekes hut , used to practically live there in my possum trapping days when i lived in Taihape. cheers
She,s a dead ringer for the Jam Hut.Especially with the non std coloursteel weatherboards as exterior cladding.FS must have used that as default cladding when setting up the Clarence Blk Huts.Could have sworn that photo background is where you throw the tea leaves @ the Jam Hut