Thornhill's Hut - Tararuas

An unmarked hut in the Ngatiawa catchment behind Waikanae. 2-bunk, open fire, tank water, no matresses.

The hut is at about 900m, in mature bush, and about 100 vertical meters below the clear / scrub that tops the Kapakapanui range. It's within 50m of a nearby tramping track, but invisible from it.

The hut was apparently built by a local resident and dates to the 1980s. I'm told by another source that it was used as a base for possuming, so have also been referring to it as Possumer's Hut. It's taken me a long time to find it though ... and when I did it was in the dark, off track, by torchlight!