You're a weapon brother! Mad respect for the miles you punch out and country covered! I feel ya on those "tourist vibes", get it a lot from other hunters. A hut you should visit is Sir Roberts Hut, it's hut book dates back to the 1980's and is hardly filled in. Well, it was like that when I walked to it in 2019. Precision helis probably added a few chumps in there! Keep charging brother, oi oi!
Mean brother, that would be a solid mission! I found going up the whitecombe to frews saddle then TR of steadmans creek the fastest way to the spur that drops into sir Robert's. Look forward to seeing you video that one! Ha yeah bro, I froth over hundy hunting!
Did the Avalanche Peak/Crow River loop a few years ago, and have been to Waimak' Falls Hut a few times in recent years. I love all that country and have tramped it since the 1960s. Spent a few nights in Crow Hut in January, 2023. The Crow Glacier is the northernmost glacier in NZ. We visited Gizeh Biv in February 1976, just a few years before an avalanche wiped it out. Anti Crow CMC Hut (about 10 minutes up the valley from the current Anti Crow Hut)was accidentally burned down in 1977 and not replaced. Greenlaw Hut (CMC) was washed out by Greenlaw Stream in 1980s or 90s and not replaced. The National Park is always careful to remove all debris from any huts which are removed. There was until about 1973, a good NZFS 4-bunk hut (White River Hut) beside (50M away from) Carrington Hut. We visited both huts in 1969 when the NZFS had a govt. culler living in the NZFS hut there, and hunting the upper Waimak' area from it. But that NZFS hut was removed by the Park in about 1973, as was the good NZFS hut on the Hawdon River flats, about an hour up from the road. Also, long before there was any hut in the upper Hawdon, there was a terrible, dark, damp, old hut at the forks, which had no windows and was more like a cave than a hut. I recall it may have been built by the University of Canterbury Tramping Club (which also maintain Avoca Hut.) Nevertheless trampers did use that hut, until the Park removed it around 1970, when they removed the NZFS hut from downstream, and built the first Hawdon Hut, which was burned down around 2012 and has since been replaced. During 1967 we stayed a night in the NZFS Hawdon Hut, then tramped upstream to the rotten hut described above, then continued up and over Trudge Col and spent a night in Poulter Hut, then exited via Casey Saddle. Great videos and commentary Indy.
Thanks for info as usual Gregory, I plan on visiting many of the removed hut sites around Arthurs and Westland. It'll take awhile because there are so many.
Loving the hut history. Thanks Indy.
The distances you cover are nuts haha. Definitely going to get up to Waimak falls hut this year though!
You're a weapon brother! Mad respect for the miles you punch out and country covered! I feel ya on those "tourist vibes", get it a lot from other hunters. A hut you should visit is Sir Roberts Hut, it's hut book dates back to the 1980's and is hardly filled in. Well, it was like that when I walked to it in 2019. Precision helis probably added a few chumps in there! Keep charging brother, oi oi!
I plan on bagging Serpentine, Frisco, Mungo, and Sir Roberts this year. Like your vids too, proper hunting.
Mean brother, that would be a solid mission! I found going up the whitecombe to frews saddle then TR of steadmans creek the fastest way to the spur that drops into sir Robert's. Look forward to seeing you video that one! Ha yeah bro, I froth over hundy hunting!
Tear tabs on beer cans came out in 1965 in the USA, I Don't think they made it to NZ until the late 70's. Leopard was still around well into the 80's
Thanks for the info.
ill get those trees sorted for ya mate. #getthathuttoaS
Did the Avalanche Peak/Crow River loop a few years ago, and have been to Waimak' Falls Hut a few times in recent years.
I love all that country and have tramped it since the 1960s. Spent a few nights in Crow Hut in January, 2023.
The Crow Glacier is the northernmost glacier in NZ.
We visited Gizeh Biv in February 1976, just a few years before an avalanche wiped it out.
Anti Crow CMC Hut (about 10 minutes up the valley from the current Anti Crow Hut)was accidentally burned down in 1977 and not replaced.
Greenlaw Hut (CMC) was washed out by Greenlaw Stream in 1980s or 90s and not replaced.
The National Park is always careful to remove all debris from any huts which are removed.
There was until about 1973, a good NZFS 4-bunk hut (White River Hut) beside (50M away from) Carrington Hut. We visited both huts in 1969 when the NZFS had a govt. culler living in the NZFS hut there, and hunting the upper Waimak' area from it. But that NZFS hut was removed by the Park in about 1973, as was the good NZFS hut on the Hawdon River flats, about an hour up from the road. Also, long before there was any hut in the upper Hawdon, there was a terrible, dark, damp, old hut at the forks, which had no windows and was more like a cave than a hut. I recall it may have been built by the University of Canterbury Tramping Club (which also maintain Avoca Hut.) Nevertheless trampers did use that hut, until the Park removed it around 1970, when they removed the NZFS hut from downstream, and built the first Hawdon Hut, which was burned down around 2012 and has since been replaced. During 1967 we stayed a night in the NZFS Hawdon Hut, then tramped upstream to the rotten hut described above, then continued up and over Trudge Col and spent a night in Poulter Hut, then exited via Casey Saddle.
Great videos and commentary Indy.
Thanks for info as usual Gregory, I plan on visiting many of the removed hut sites around Arthurs and Westland. It'll take awhile because there are so many.
Would be cool if you started hunting
Nice one mate.....ever thought of doing the coast to coast ?
Nah, i'm not to keen on that stuff.
don't fold to the commercial side of life @@indy.hawthorne
when am I expecting string perspective in one of these videos?
It'll get copywrited
Taranaki long weekend got the people frothing
Happy birthday Taranaki