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That's the same pilot we used to fly in rebuilding materials for Harris Creek hut in 76 or 77. He was hauling the loads over the side of a cliff and getting up translational lift that way:o Cool as a...

...And that's why a modest 10 person hut costs a mill to build.

That, and the Carpenters don't want to live on site so have to be choppered in and out daily:omg:

Did a haul down the main range back in 79 ( from memory). Ruahine Corner to Po Base. met the guys just starting to build Top Gorge Hut.


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You look at the timber dimensions of those S70 huts, then think that they have stood the rigours of weather 10 times worse than an Auckland gale, and are still standing 50 years later.:D