New Zealand is blessed with an extensive hut network including this gem: Mt Brown Hut on the West Coast. Photo: Neco Wieringa

The fun business of hut bagging

July 2021

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There are a lot of backcountry huts in New Zealand and some people want to visit as many as possible. Ricky French meets the country’s top hut-baggers

During the depths of last year’s Covid-19 lockdown, while the rest of New Zealand was baking banana bread, Auckland tramper Geoff Mead was busy working his way up and down the country, following scores of tramping tracks that led to hundreds of huts.   Mead’s lockdown journey was undertaken purely from home, I should add. […]
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