 After visiting Renata Hut on a slight detour while walking the Tararuas in 2013, local hunters and trampers Grant Timlin and Barry Durrant were disappointed to find the old building in a sad state of repair.
Grant had hoped with the change of ownership from its original builders, the Wellington Catholic Tramping Club, to the Department of Conservation, a bit of maintenance might have been done in the subsequent years. Numerous groups expressed an interest, but nothing happened and the hut continued to be vandalised and decline. |
