Kokatahi Bivouac (removed)

Hut removed 2008.

Kokatahi Bivouac (dilapidated) was once a typical 2-bed apline bivouac, located on a grassy face above the upper Kokatahi River, just above the confluence with the creek draining from Zit Saddle. However, the bivouac is now in a sad state of disrepair: the floor has rotted out, and it has fallen off it's piles, and is tilted sideways at an angle of 15 degrees. Not much - you say? Well you try sleeping on the 'uphill' bed without rolling off.

In reality, this bivouac still serves as an emergency shelter - and can sleep one, at a push, on the narrow cooking-bench on the downhill side (I actually got a good night's sleep - but I was very tired). There is no flat ground anywhere nearby to pitch a tent - so plan on staying at the Top Kokatahi Hut 3km downstream, until this bivouac is rescued from the brink.

It's a lovely spot in the upper Kokatahi Valley. It's handly for an early crossing of Zit Saddle, or climb to Mt Chamberlain.