Thread: Old huts

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.

@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.

Originally Posted by Pixie Z

@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.

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!

Stayed here last saturday, Trig hut on the summit of the Hunua Ranges, awesome fireplace build into the natural rock, only two beds though....

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.

[QUOTE=Sidetrack;1352626]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.

No its been gone for a few years now, replaced by a flash doc hut... Have fond memories of that ole hut, so dark inside had to burn mossie coils for mossies 24hrs a day there....

Seeing this is about huts , do any of you gentlemen have any photos of shark tooth rock bivi up the Douglas River and
the rock bivi lower Horace Walker , thanks ,

Reading throught this is really neat and got me thinking about old huts I'd been to. First to come to mind is Cone hut in the tararuas, shot my first deer on the way there in 93 or 94. Spooked my first deer in the dark that trip to, scared the shit out of me. Dad sent me down river to check the flats in the evening by myself, would of been 13-14. Nothing seen but stumbling back in the dark walked straight in to a deer. Will never forget that trip.

Quick Google says the hut is still there in its original totara slab construction.

Like Sayers it had a totara shingle roof, leaks came with the territory. Both have a history that can't be matched by the huts built today.

Cone hut. Pinched from Google.

Greetings All,
A few years ago I wrote a story for the NZ Guns and Hunting on an early walk into the now gone Lawrence Hut. In it I mentioned the Black Whare which we passed on the way in. I had not been able to find a photo of the hut until a friend gave me a slide showing it which was likely taken around 1960.
Lester Masters gives some info into its early history. It was built in the last two decades of the 1800's by a couple of men who were pit sawing timber in an adjacent patch of bush. They used timber sawn on site ant the interor was lined as you can see on the photo. Later the whare was used by staff on Waiwhare Station. During this time one of the staff was asked to turn out a mob of sheep into the Quarry padock. The gentleman, whose name was Hapi, so tasked heard Quarry as Whare and set out on what was a significant drive returning after dark to the relief of others who were organising a search party. Thereafter the whare was known as Happy Valley Hut for a time and the valley where it sits is known as Happy Valley. More recently some have called the hut Back Whare and the road close to its location is so named. I have looked for the hut recently but could find no trace. It was visible from the road up until the felling of the first rotation of pines around 2000.



Regards Grandpamac.

One from the past.... how things were.

the year i left school , the next year i was up there on my way to the Horace Walker bivy