Thread: Golden Hills Hut Restoration

Our new member Murray N has asked me to post a series of five stories about the restoration of the old Golden Hills hut in the Kaimanawa Range - Murray is a very experienced Tauranga hunter and builder
Murray has developed the stories with his tech advisor who formatted them into pdf files - I have arranged to store them in the cloud on a Google directory - so long as the link remains open for others to view - they should be fine - let me know if they fall over
Enjoy -

Trip 1
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1M4...-MRQ-HF9ApMT9S

Trip 2 Part A
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Qm...umFe8ICILTaG6-

Trip 2 Part B
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Gk...5XKFmA3W13louv

Trip 3
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1W8...kXCp9XcpN2BeRh

Trip 4
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1uu...SuSyJSfwhvI8Gi

Yeah followed the restoration over at the other pub. Stories are a interesting read. Great effort by the restoration team.

Thanks enjoyed that

Absolutely excellent.

I love seeing things like this happening, Keeping our local history is so important but seems to be overlooked so often. We are a young country but we have lost so much of our history already.
Top effort and a great read.

Originally Posted by time out

Murray has developed the stories with his tech advisor who formatted them into pdf files....

Tech advisor?

In this day and age I take it this is probably his 12 year old child.



Thanks for posting those - good to see huts being restored instead of pulled down.

Great stuff

Big ups to those guys.

Golden Hills is a special place for a number of NI backcountry roamers for a number of reasons.....a very pretty spot, lots of farming and hunting history......

What an awesome thread

I love seeing stuff like this. Restoring a hut and keeping the soul of the original intact and retaining some of the history.

Well done and a huge "thank you" to everyone involved.

a respectful restoration of a hut that holds so many memories.

Just Awesome
Love their use of the local wood and great to see it split and used in the hut.

That was an awesome read, great to see peoples dedication to preserving our history. It sure looks like a special place. Well Done to all of those involved in the restoration.

Restoration Trip 5 report from Murray N - file link below – Enjoy -

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VU9...ew?usp=sharing

Yes great Post
Thanks will save

Originally Posted by time out

Restoration Trip 5 report from Murray N - file link below – Enjoy -

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VU9...ew?usp=sharing

To me this Thread take the #1 seat
That last PDF is a collection
Good on all that took part - would have been a lot of work but the rewards would have been even greater !!

Never got to the Golden Hills - entended to - but never did

Again @time out
Great Post - in my opinion best this year thus far