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Pigeon Post, December 2011

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By Ruth Soukoutou

Letter of the month Hawdon Hut needs a Wilderness update! Our family recently had a wonderful tramp to Hawdon Hut and Walker Pass. In the hut, for the evening, attention was turned to chatting and reading anything that was lying around. At Hawdon Hut the pages of a Wilderness magazine were flipped but this magazine […]

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