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 Hut Heroes: Paul Kilgour: story and video
Profile of Paul Kilgour, a kindly, energetic and intelligently man. He has tramped incessantly for years, and in 2004 he retraced on maps all the walks he could remember and made a notebook listing huts he had stayed in and those he “had cast a shadow on”. After his 2007/08 “long walk home” the number jumped considerably. He is still keeping a record in his neatly kept notebooks. When we looked in March 2018, he was up to 1,174 huts total.
New Zealand Hut Heroes: John Taylor, master of hut restoration
Profile of John Taylor, an amazing DOC engineer and hut restoration expert who has contributed enormously to the maintenance building and conservation of NZ huts. Notes on his mentor Max Polgaze, whose hut building and restoration work is legendary. Lots of great photos shared by John.
New Zealand Hut Operations: Notes on ten selected DoC hut operations
Notes on ten selected operational issues, with links to NZ DOC manuals, standards and other documents. INcludes track (trail) extent, maintenance and building; waste and gray water management; logbooks; historic huts and conservation; citizen action to maintain huts; and reservations system.
Cross-cultural Comparisons of Huts: methodological notes
Thoughts and questions, using NZ as an example, about what questions to ask and how to develop a more intentional method of using cross-cultural comparison as a lens for studying and comparing hut systems internationally.
New Zealand Huts: unique features and loose ends
Notes on topics I’d hoped to learn and write more fully about, which are place-holders/reminders to spur further inquiry on interesting topics, by myself or, I hope, by others.
Brian Dobbie: New Zealand Hut Hero
Profile of my liaison to DOC when spending three months in NZ. Brian is an exemplary public servant who has quietly served his fellow Kiwi’s by helping to steer the modern development of their remarkable national hut system. This brief profile attempts to put a face to the name by sketching in some background about a person who works quietly behind the scenes to maintain access to the bush.