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Always loved that hut... and the Urqarts up the Wilberforce... some where I have photos of the names written on the walls... the writing lasted because it was written in the days of old lead pencils on real galvanized iron and I suspect there was some sort of lasting chemical reaction, because they are all out in the weather.
Next hut up valley is the Reischek.... also a nice hut.
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Home is where you hang your hat and shiver lol.
Stoney crk biv.
Snap... thats funny... classic
I was there late April last year
I have to tell the old man about this thread, he built a pile of huts threw Nelson, central NI, Nelson lakes Cupola was one, said they were walking back up the lake, with a load of jelly and longer posts, when news came on the radio, that JFK was killed.
Think he spent the sixty's, In nelson and the coast, building huts, and was part of the forestry crew, that started the swing bridge building, with the first test bridge in Lewis pass, know he surveyed and built, all the ones up the Ngarururoro, plus a few in Whakatane, Got quite a few photos of the old huts,
He's got sum good yarns, I know the Mokihinui river flat hut on the west coast, had no lining on the walls, cause they didn't get it moved off the flat, when the river started too flood, and it floated away.
Doinit- wondering whether FS didnt run out of Hut/Biv names to tack onto them back in the day.Your happy snap of that Stoney Creek Biv doesnt tally with the one I,m familiar with, talking about the Stoney Creek FS Biv on St.James. There's probably more than half a dozen Boundry Stream/Rocky Creek models out there
Inside pic of Washbourne Hut , lovely wee hut that oozes character , yes the old names on the iron is incredible , a lot of the really old huts like this one are old musterers huts that the public can now use , not sure what the earliest NZFS Huts were ? does somebody on here know ?
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That was October last year, I’ll definitely be going back
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Lucky- NZFS didnt take over Noxious Animal Control til 1956 with the passing of that Act.Taking over from Internal Affairs Dept who previous operated out of seasonal tent camps in the main.FS immediately commenced constructing their animal control hut network so my best guess would be circa 1958-60ish
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From memory was a derelict house. Mates black lab named Champ.
Hard case as I fenced mangaohane for nearly 30 yrs and never made it right to the hut as always had something well before we got there.
Its nothing to sit on the top bluffs and watch 40 deer out on the horse clearings.
They knew they were safe as a good hike down to the creek and plenty up the top to ping!
We stayed alot in smythe's hut hunting or working and would often run into the Sturgeon brothers up there as well when they needed to restock the larder!
Happy times
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Thanks for that posting.
Hunted the Ahu Ahu Valley from 1967 onward for a few years until it got too well known. If it is the old house I remember it was on a reasonably large flat still clear of second growth. There was a stand of mature macrocarpas IIRC behing the house? There was an almost derelict swing bridge across to the flat. If it's the same house one end where the fireplace wasn't too bad, the other half not so habitable.
Almost got shot further up the main valley. We were walking thru manuka and approaching the edge of a small clearing with exposed papa face. Dickhead on the other side of the stream fired a shot that slammed into the papa about 2 metres ahead of us. I immediately fired a shot into the air. Subsequent abuse of them ended up with no reply or apology. They had most likely come in from the road that ended way up the valley, not via the Wanganui River.
We used to cross the Wanganui River using a 2 man kyack which had its moments.
I remember the old farm house and old man macrocarpa trees down the Ahu Ahu valley , we would come in from Kai Iwi and camp up stream on a small flat where the large creek entered on the left and did a few trips around 1970 , usually a few pigs and deer on the flats .some of the side creeks had good hunting ,had a few interesting moments with the wild cattle as well .
Many of the ridges had old fence lines totally overgrown with scrub , you had to feel for the farmer who had spent the best years of there life trying to make it , but like so many others had to eventually walk off there land .
found these pics from a few years ago
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First pic is The Rats nest..Greenstone.
Second pic is Steeles crk hut Greenstone.
An ol mate inside Cartwheel hut Blue Mts.
I don't think this counts as a hut maybe? I found this last month in careys creek. I think someone was having a bit of 'bushcraft' fun there over the summer period. Probably not legal. Was a bit annoyed that it was built in an area I like to stalk for goats, but at least there was no trash. Not a single beer bottle or can to be found. It also rained soon after I found it so I enjoyed the shelter with a big spider.
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man thats interesting I spent 8 years at lake as a ranger early 90,s I knew of 4 private huts down the lake but not one under Panekiri
man that photo of Sids takes me back Did a number of 3 month stints in there and Tewaiotukapiti culling for FS in early seventies
@JessicaChen Carey’s is such a small block that there’s really no need to overnight in there. No idea why anyone would bother building a shelter in there. Hunted it heaps over the last 7-8yrs.
Here’s a cool wee hut I’m sure some of you know. Built in 1920. Bunks are made of Manuka. Has a hefty hut book that goes back to the mid 1980s, even with people writing several pages per entry.
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This shelter is not far from a road (within 200m). So I would hazard a guess it was just for fun, and not for any practical reason such as an overnight stay.
But yeah I like Carey's. Got a few goats in there, but feels a bit difficult sometimes due to thickness and steepness.
Looked through this thread again, and felt pleased I started it 4 years ago. Huts seem to be a trigger to many of our memories of areas and places we have hunted or been. Long may the venerable FS hut and its offspring live!
Almost as interesting as one of its builders Alex Shute, who lived there for some years. When it was built Alex was not long out of hospital after being wounded in WW1 when the hut was built. Alex (Alexander) was a thoroughly interesting chap who was likely most at peace at the hut. Lester Masters talks about him in Back Country Tales and wrote this about him.
Old Alex Shutewas a rabbiting man,
In the high lands of the Bay,
He'd pull your leg and drink your grog,
And yet you would want to stay,
With that old coot of a toughie Shute,
In the high lands of the Bay.
Regards Grandpamac.
Stayed here last saturday, Trig hut on the summit of the Hunua Ranges, awesome fireplace build into the natural rock, only two beds though....
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Anyone know if this hut in the Stafford still exists. Flew in around forty years ago and I think, from memory, it had a notice of destruction on it back then. Shot my first deer there and picked up a fawn so bit of a special memory for me.
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And here it is "back in the day" long before DOC cut down Alex's pine trees and fruit trees
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