Hut of the Year gets some TLC

May 2017

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the volunteer crew setting to work at Ivory Lake Hut. Photo: Keith Riley
A group of volunteers recently spent some time sprucing up Wilderness’s 2016 Hut of the Year, Ivory Lake Hut. The remote hut sits at the headwaters of the Waitaha River, a renowned white water kayaking region on the West Coast. A group of five kayakers and mountaineers have been working hard on the hut since […]
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