Hut2Hut Archive

Includes articles/posts transferred from Hut2Hut.info about international topics, as well as some others that are not necessarily up to date or very substantive. These serve as an archive for the hut2hut.info website, which will eventually be decommissioned, but which has formed the foundation for the US Hut Alliance site and will be discontinued.

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New Zealand Great Walks: user perceptions
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New Zealand Great Walks: user perceptions

There are currently 33 Great Walks Huts and 95 Serviced Huts in the DoC system. This combined total of 128 huts constitutes 13.3% of total DoC huts (963). The user perceptions summarized below are from these two hut categories. While a small percentage of the whole system, these two categories attract the most intensive use and controversy.

This summary of user perceptions is derived from two sources: 1. from discussions that I gathered in three months of interviews and travels in NZ, and 2. from the results of an academic survey reported in the article “Tramper Perspectives on New Zealand’s Great Walks in a time of transition” (in New Zealand Geographer, 2017, p. 1-15, by Joe Fagan and Robin Kearns). [

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Shelter from the Storm: The Story of New Zealand’s Backcountry Huts: book review part 1
Architecture/design, Books/resources, high mountain huts, History, Hut operations, Hut systems, Trails, New Zealand Guest User Architecture/design, Books/resources, high mountain huts, History, Hut operations, Hut systems, Trails, New Zealand Guest User

Shelter from the Storm: The Story of New Zealand’s Backcountry Huts: book review part 1

Review of the best book ever written about huts and about their connection to culture. A tour de force that changed the way Kiwis understood their hut culture. Must-read for folks interested in NZ huts.

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