'Possumer's Hut' - Tararuas

An unmarked hut in the Ngatiawa catchment behind Waikanae. 2-bun, 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.

I'd be very happy to be given the correct name for this hut, and any history anyone has. When I first heard of it some time back I was told it was constructed by a possumer - so for now that can be the working-name. It's taken me a long time to find it though ... and when I did it was in the dark, off track, by torchlight!