Here is a photo of this hut from a different angle than the 1975 one I posted and "major's" one from a couple of years ago. This recent trip was the first time I've been back there since 1975. (I'm now well through a programme of revisiting West Coast huts that I tramped to or visited thru work back in the 1970's)

These days this hut gets a steady trickle of visitors. Certainly more than 1975 when Duncan Hamilton, myself & a few friends seemed to be the main people that visited the place. A fair percentage of users fly in but it is only a days walk to get there from the Kakapotahi or Mikonui roadends. Visitors are mainly trampers or hunters. There are some great alpine routes that can be done from this hut and you regularly see chamois when on the tops above the hut.

I don't remember weka in the area back in 1975 but they have recolonised it and there seems to be a family of them living under the hut now. They'll come inside if you leave the door open.