28/04/2025
A Season of Restoration
Backcountry Trust Volunteers continued to pour thousands of hours of time into maintaining our network of huts and tracks over the 2024/25 summer season.
Over the summer, work on over 30 huts and many kilometers of tracks across the motu – from the rugged Ruahine Ranges to remote corners of Fiordland – has been completed. The following huts are just some of those restored or maintained in recent months:
Lauper Biv (Canterbury)
Middle Hill Hut, Te Puke Hut, Kaweka Flats Biv & Back Ridge Biv (Kaweka Forest Park)
Rockslide Hut & Leon Kinvig Hut (Ruahine Forest Park)
Kerin Forks Hut (Mt Aspiring National Park)
Leitch’s Hut (Whareorino Conservation Area)
Clark A-Frame Hut (Fiordland National Park)
Goat Pass Hut (Arthur’s Pass National Park)
Brass Monkey Hut (Lewis Pass National Park)
Mangaotane Hut (Raukumara Conservation Park)
Old Women Hut (Kopuwai Conservation Area)
Nikau Flats Hut (Waioweka Conservation Area)
Dorset Ridge Hut, Waitewaewae Hut (Tararua Forest Park)
Waipakihi Hut (Kaimanawa Forest Park)
The volume of work is made possible through funding from DOC's Community Conservation Partnership Fund, the Incoming Visitor Levy and the generous support of Fletcher Building.
Fletcher Building's five year commitment to providing material contributions to the Backcountry Trust through its various building product suite has enabled critical restoration projects to go ahead as well as the construction of the new Brass Monkey Hut in Lewis Pass.
During the summer the Backcountry Trust also continued its program of removing lead from public conservation land to protect kea. Kingspan/Thermakraft continued to supply the trust with roofing underlay as part of this program.
Fletcher Building
Kingspan Thermakraft
GWBN New Zealand Deerstalkers Association Inc
