Thread: DOC hut book use

I was brought up tramping and camping the lower and central North Island. Our family and friends stayed in huts and doc camp site very often. We always did and I still always will complete an entry in to the hut books.

When first getting to the hut, I enter names and intentions of the stay. Then on departure, enter the total number of nights stayed and weather or not animals were seen. Regardless of what other say or think of DOC or their assets in the parks, I'll always continue to enter in the book (even if just passing by a hut during the day). This is what we do as responsible hunters and back country uses.

We are extermly fortunate in New Zealand to have such a unique network of huts in the back country. There is nowhere else in the world that as a resource - pay you money for the huts that you need to and enter in to the hut books or lose these forever (and then the land will get flicked off as no one uses it). Basic huts and Bivvies are even free!