Kiwi Saddle Hut is sited in a small clearing at 1170m. Photo: Shaun Barnett/Black Robin Photography

A bunk in the beech forest

August 2018

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Kiwi Saddle Hut, Kaweka Forest Park

I’m old enough to remember the original Kiwi Saddle Hut, with its rough bunks made from sacking and beech poles and its Malthoid roof. Built by members of the Heretaunga Tramping Club in 1947, it lasted four decades, but eventually the ravages of time saw it replaced with a new structure in 1987. Club members […]
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