Fri 22 May, 2009 9:35 am
Fri 22 May, 2009 11:08 am
Fri 22 May, 2009 6:58 pm
Fri 22 May, 2009 10:08 pm
scavenger wrote:I thought the authorities were dead-set against the rebuilding of any of the huts in the Wilderness areas.
I wonder if this means that Happy's might be rebuilt? That I wouldn't mind . . .
Sat 23 May, 2009 6:52 am
Ephebus wrote:Sounds like a great walk Tony. Crossing an "icy cold swollen Tumut River" is a feeling I'm all too familiar with. However, you do quickly warm up on the subsequent uphill. It's good to see O'Keefes finished. I've been hanging out to see photos of it since I saw it half built in December, but the Huts website had not updated. Is it completely finished now? Does it have bunks inside?scavenger wrote:I thought the authorities were dead-set against the rebuilding of any of the huts in the Wilderness areas.
I wonder if this means that Happy's might be rebuilt? That I wouldn't mind . . .
From what I have read the authorities don't seem to mind rebuilding if the site is of particular historical significant or has significant values as a shelter such as O'Keefes due to its proximity to Jagungal and the number of people that cross country ski in the area in Winter. I thought Happy's was still there (the KHA site says it's still there, although the site isn't regularly updated. Do you mean Happy Jacks Plain Hut) but I believe Pretty Plain Hut is due to be rebuilt soon as well? Which I would love to visit in a trip last also encompasses staying at Wheeler's Hut.
Sat 23 May, 2009 9:59 am
Sun 24 May, 2009 5:19 pm
Ephebus wrote: I thought Happy's was still there (the KHA site says it's still there, although the site isn't regularly updated. Do you mean Happy Jacks Plain Hut)
Mon 25 May, 2009 5:57 pm
scavenger wrote:Ephebus wrote: I thought Happy's was still there (the KHA site says it's still there, although the site isn't regularly updated. Do you mean Happy Jacks Plain Hut)
Nope, Happy's was burnt out the same time as BooBee, according to all the LogBook entries. Nothing all the way from Kiandra/Mt Selwyn to Mackey's. I mean the one about 2km west of the AAWT, named as 'Happy's Hut' on the Old Adaminaby 1:25,000 CMA map, in the North-eastern corner of Happy Jack's Plain, between two of the upper feeders of the creek.
This is purely hearsay, mind, because I've never tried to get out to it, but there's no hut visible from anywhere on or near the track, and there are plenty of Log entries at Mackey's and elsewhere bemoaning the loss of the hut.
Wed 27 May, 2009 8:43 am
Wed 27 May, 2009 7:46 pm
Ephebus wrote:Although I have not been there either, I do know that "Happy's Hut" (as referred to by KHA - which also sounds lke the one you described) wasn't burnt in the '03 fires which was when BooBee went down (although Happy Jack's was). Perhaps some people in the log book got the names slightly mixed up. If you have a look at this link it shows huts in the area that got burnt in '03. Also, there are number of photos and trip reports from people who have done the AAWT that have passed the hut at least as late as 2005. So if it has been burnt down it would have to be some time after that.
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