Wednesday, 6 May 2020

The hunt for Snowy Hut, Tararua FP, Jan 2019

A three-day circuit with Nicholas and Missy Smith, and of course the hound Flo

Missy with Flo and her new socks

Field Hut

Field Hut

Joe Gibbs, hut builder and bushman

Into the mist

Between Field and Kime huts

And the weather clears

In life, it's not where you go, it's who you travel with

Near Hut Mound

Decision time - and on to Kime

A welcome refuge 

Dishes duty

Kime Hut

View toward Wairarapa

To Mt Hector it is

The last climb to Mt Hector

Erected by the Wellington Tramping Clubs for trampers and mountaineers who gave their lives in the 1939-1945 war.

Mt Hector memorial

A lovely tops day, if a bit windy




Dropping off Aston

Into the scrub on Renata Ridge (just west of Aston)

Elder Hut

View over Kapiti Coast

Rest stop on ridge 666

Eastern Waiotauru (Snowy) River camp

Team Smith on dinner duty

Crossing the Snowy


Snowy Hut is one of a handful of unmarked huts in the Tararua FP.  It is not a DoC hut and I'm unsure of its heritage.

It was very nice to find it easily and where we expected it to be.  As is standard practice with these unmarked huts, we will not share the coordinates.  Enjoy your own adventure.

Snowy Hut

Snowy Hut

The start of day 3


Lunch at Waiotauru Forks




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