Basic Hut/bivvy, but has been extensively renovated in recent years. Is now fully lined and upgraded to 6 bunks with new mattresses. The original open fire has been retained.
An old animal study hide built in 1974 to study chamois in the area.
This is a 2 bunk bivvy adapted for its purpose with slide-open slit windows, shutters and a high bench below each. There is a small water tank (battered to near destruction by kea) and a short-drop (shovel provided) toilet. The 2 bunks have no mattresses and there is no fire. The hut is seldom visited - going 5 years at one point between the last chamois survey and the first visit (Honara and Frank) with no visitors. It is a tough place to get to, but the views of the ranges opposite are wonderful, as is the history, isolation and basic functionality of the place.
3 routes exist up from Basin Creek - up the chute (creek) below the hut. Up the avalanche path 1km east or from Chamois Creek via pt 1647. An old marked track also heads down from the biv, but becomes lost lower down.
Basic Hut/bivvy
A standard 4-bunk forestry hut in the Kaweka Range. Situated in a tongue of beech beside a small stream, right on the bushedge - this is a sheltered but relatively high altitude hut. The hut features an enclosed woodburner and water from the stream. As with all Kaweka huts it is popular with hunters, especially during the sika roar, in April-May.
A 6 bunk NZFS hut on the south bank of Basins Creek at the confluence with the Avoca. Creek water 50m away, and a woodburner. Busy and popular with hunters / 4WD people when the road is open but quiet and pleasant otherwise (closed from lambing through to December usually, $20 access, permission required).
Standard Hut
An old 4-bunk musterer's hut - hessian bunks and a dirt floor. Rough but usable - sandflies may be present!
A newer 6-bunk NZFS hut sits opposite.
Basic Hut/bivvy
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