BACKCOUNTRY TRUST - Supporting Aotearoa's Backcountry Heritage
  • Home
  • Grants
    • Apply
    • Guidelines
    • Claims, Payments and Reporting
    • Resources
  • Projects
    • Latest News
    • Volunteer Projects
    • Kaimahi for Nature Projects
    • Photo Gallery
  • About
    • Booklet
    • History
    • Trustees
    • National Operations Manager
    • North Island Project Manager
    • South Island Project Coordinator
    • DOC
    • Sponsors
    • Donations
    • Performance Report
  • FAQ
  • Contact
    • Contact Us
    • Subscribe to Newsletter
  • BCT Owned Huts
    • Mataketake Hut
    • Winchcombe Biv
  • Home
  • Grants
    • Apply
    • Guidelines
    • Claims, Payments and Reporting
    • Resources
  • Projects
    • Latest News
    • Volunteer Projects
    • Kaimahi for Nature Projects
    • Photo Gallery
  • About
    • Booklet
    • History
    • Trustees
    • National Operations Manager
    • North Island Project Manager
    • South Island Project Coordinator
    • DOC
    • Sponsors
    • Donations
    • Performance Report
  • FAQ
  • Contact
    • Contact Us
    • Subscribe to Newsletter
  • BCT Owned Huts
    • Mataketake Hut
    • Winchcombe Biv

Howletts Hut Upgrade

8/5/2020

 
Picture
Howletts Hut
​Howletts Hut is one of the most historic club huts in the country, and has served as welcome refuge for trampers and hunters for over 80 years. It's located in a snug location on Daphne Ridge in Ruahine Forest Park. The first hut to occupy the site was built by local botanist and school teacher William Howlett in 1893-4. Howlett's hut lasted until 1930, and was replaced by a second hut built by the Ruahine Tramping Club (RTC) in 1940, with help from the Heretaunga Tramping Club. After the RTC disestablished, the Heretaunga Tramping Club took over the hut, and undertook a major renovation in 1979-1980. Club members have lovingly maintained the hut ever since, and made several small upgrades over the years, but have largely retained its original shape and character.
In Round 6 the club applied to the Backcountry Trust for funding to upgrade the bench to a new stainless steel one. In February 2018 John Montgomerie with a couple of others from the club flew in with the new bench and some more fuel for the heating in the hut. The old galv bench was stripped off and the new bench fitted and glued down to the existing frame.

On the same trip the hut was given a full clean with sadly the club also having to fly out a bit of rubbish that some users had been leaving there over the last couple of years.

Fresh paint was also taken in on this trip for a later planned paint job on the hut which will be done some time in 2020 but the club.
Picture
Picture
Finished bench and upstand
Picture
>Go Back to Project List

Comments are closed.

    Projects

    March 2023
    February 2023
    October 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    December 2021
    October 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    July 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    March 2019
    January 2019
    June 2018
    March 2018

Quick Links

SUPPORTED BY

Apply for a Grant
Donate to the BCT
View Volunteer Projects
Latest News
Remote Huts Forum and Blog

Picture
Picture
Picture
© BACKCOUNTRY TRUST 2019
Subscribe