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August 2021

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Private companies Fraemohs and Lockwood once competed to create the best hut.

Distinctive, solid huts made of locking timber with the air of yesteryear. You encounter them in various parts of the backcountry: Tongariro, the Kaimanawa and Ruahine Ranges, Arthur’s Pass, parts of the Canterbury foothills, and on the West Coast.  Between the 1950s and mid-1980s, New Zealand’s track and hut network was managed by the Department […]
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