Red Hut on its terrace above the river. Photo: Simon Bainbridge

Seeing Red

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Red Hut was built as part of a madcap tourist venture. Now it provides an easy overnighter for the decrepit and the young. Hazel Phillips paid a visit.

Sometimes the best ideas are those mad ones. But sometimes they’re just, well, mad. Red Hut was a mad idea. Not the hut itself, resplendent in brick red with its white trim windows. The hut was rather sensible, right down to its segregated sleeping quarters, a compartment for each gender. It was the reason for […]
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Hazel Phillips

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Hazel Phillips

Hazel Phillips is an alpine adventurer and the author of Fire & Ice, Solo, and Great Hearts. A firm believer that ‘you can’t be what you can’t see’, she’s passionate about representation in the outdoors. She is a self-confessed Ruapehu addict, and she’s never met a topo map she didn’t get along with.

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