NEW MOUNTAIN HUT
SITE IN COOK AREA
CONSTRUCTION TO BEGIN NEXT EASTER
The Canterbury Mountaineering Club hopes to start building a new base hut in the Mount Cook area during the next Easter holidays. The hut will stand on Foliage Hill, near the old Hermitage site. Plans for the new hut have been prepared by the assistant secretary of the club (Mr R. D. Byers), who has worked on the building of about 20 mountain huts. The hut will have two bunkrooms, each with accommodation for eight climbers. The bunks, arranged two high and four on each side of the room, will be equipped with spring mattresses, and each will have its own wardrobe and chest of drawers.
There will also be a livingroom, kitchen and servery, and a washroom and shower room. Along part of the front of the hut. which will look up the Hooker Valley to Mount Cook, there will be an enclosed veranda.
The club hopes to put in concrete floors. The hut will have a floor space of slightly more than 900 square feet. Local stone and shingle will be used in the construction up to window-still level. The rest of the walls will be oiled cedar weatherboards.
It is hoped to start laying the foundations for the hut next Easter holidays, and to continue the building next Christmas.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27533, 15 December 1954, Page 12
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