Big Hellfire Hut (Hellfire Pass Hut)

Rakiura National Park, Southland

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Big Hellfire Hut (Hellfire Pass Hut), Rakiura National Park  by Tramper - Big Hellfire Hut (March, 2021), Rakiura NP. Photo Robbie Baggins
Standard Hut, 12 Bunks
Amenities
Heating, Mattresses, Toilets, Closed Fire, Wood Stove
Water Source
Roof into tank
Location
NZ Topo 50:CH08 986 020
NZTM Grid Ref:E1198598 N4802026
Lat/Long:-46.814187167.737918
Elevation:211m
Notes
Originally, a staff hut at Scollay’s Flat on the southern end of the Tin Range, for work on the Kakapo programme, it was shifted in the late 1980’s. Staff used an army Iroquois helicopter to transport the hut to the sand pass, but unfortunately the last load tore the guts out of the chopper, sprinkling timber from 2000 feet into the Freshwater - Bensons Peak area. March, 2021, saw a joint DOC & Back Country Trust project, complete some long-overdue maintenance with a new wood burner installed & two coats of paint applied to the exterior. Edit Hut
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albertnis - 09/07/2023
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The site of this hut is fantastically weird: it's way up a hill yet feels right next to the beach given that the Hellfire dune is directly adjacent.
Ray_Salisbury - 30/03/2022
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A sort of nowhere place, suspended 15km from Ruggedy, & 15km from Mason Bay huts. Exudes a fantastic sense of being high in the mountains.

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