Range of activities available at resort

Press, 18 December 1986, Page 31

Range of activities available at resort

The three separate operations which combine to make up the Mt Hutt Station Resort — the homestead, Mt Hutt Air, and Mt Hutt station —

provide a range of activities for guests all year round.

Mt Hutt Air, which is managed by the pilot, Mr Alan Bond, uses the licensed airstrip based on the resort, and offers a variety of services.

A new service starting next year will be a champagne breakfast and dawn-run for heli-skiers. A wide range of recreation is possible around the resort. Just 50m from the car-park is a secluded bush-walk, and information is available at the homestead on the nearby Rakaia, Methven, Mt Hutt forest and McLennan’s bush walkways. For fishing, a personal guiding service is available. Guests can take their pick of angling water for rainbow or

brown trout and quinnat salmon. Enthusiasts can test their skill on the Rakaia — or the 26 other regional lakes and rivers — and there are lakes stocked with fish on the property. A jet-boat, four-wheel drive transport, tackle, licences and guides are all ready and waiting for those who want to make use of them. A guided service is also available for hunting in and around the station. Hunters can hope to find both big game — thar, chamois, New Zealand wapiti, fallow buck, red stag, goats and pigs — and small — rabbits, pos-

sums, Canada geese, hare and ducks. Remote helicharter is available.

Twenty challenging golf courses are within an easy day-trip from the resort. There are both 18 and nine-hole courses, and visitors are welcome. The turn-off to the Mt

Hutt ski-field is skm from the resort. Thanks to the owners of the resort, there is a mountain access road up to the field. As an addition to the station tour offered, guests also have the opportunity to have an escorted day “down on the farm”; and for swimming and boating there is the resort’s Lake Mary, the Rakaia Gorge and more. The third operation at the resort, the homestead, provides a spa pool, games room, video, photography, reading room and house bar for further recreation. Picnics and barbecues are easily arranged, and picnics, helicopter style, with a bottle of champagne are possible. Day-trips to wineries, gardens, wildlife parks, art gallery, historic and national parks are just some of the other activities proposed.