History repeats but lessons learnt fall by the wayside DOC’s Visitor Services Manager Gavin Walker repeated a few myths regarding backcountry huts in the October issue of Wilderness in the article ‘Hut network on the operating table’. He stated that many of the old New Zealand Forest Service (NZFS) huts are ‘a product of the […]
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