Elliot Tops.

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DescriptionThis photo shows part of the Elliot Tops, once popular hunting country, above the Ahaura Kopara Road. Heather you said your late father used to frequent this area.
From a history point of view I can report that both huts that used to be up there are no longer standing. The wooden trig (survey triangulation beacon) on Pt 1380 metres has collapsed. The metal trig on the summit of Mt Elliot has a sheet metal panel and the top missing.Date of Photo16th November 2016Map^[1]External LinkRemoved or Lost huts archiveContributorGlenn Johnston

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LinkFacebookDate Created2016-11-17CommentsGlenn Johnston Here is a photo of bits of corrugated iron remaining from the hut that used to be in the high bush on the ridge running up to Pt 1380m on the south side of Safety Camp Creek basin. There is a fair bit of additional iron scattered about this hut site most of which is buried by leaves. The latest map I've tracked down showing this hut to be still standing was printed in 1959. Does anyone know when this hut collapsed or the other hut that was in the tussock got blown down?
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Arthur Bass
Arthur Bass There is a web site "Back Country Huts" I think it is. May help.
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Glenn Johnston
Glenn Johnston Thanks Arthur Bass. I'm one of the authors of the "Lost or Removed Huts" archive on the "Remote Huts Westland" site which I think is the one you are talking about. It currently contains nothing on the two huts I've mentioned above but does list the track from the telephone repeater to the Elliot Tops. Here is the link to the hut archive http://remotehuts.co.nz/huts/archive/
Removed Or Lost Hut Archive: Remote Huts
The following is an attempt to archive some of the huts in the Central Westland area that have fallen over, been destroyed, or removed. The listing is in alphabetical order. Double click on the images and you'll get larger photos and map locations. A double click on maps will link you to the relevan...
REMOTEHUTS.CO.NZ
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Arthur Bass
Arthur Bass I wondered about that. It is a real interesting site. Well done to all concerned.
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Heather Newby
Heather Newby he often used to sleep up Mt Elliot in his sleeping bag,, under the stars, he told me he would see flashes of bright light and we worked out it was the southern aurora which you can see from high mounain tops in the south island . He said the top of Mt Elliot glowed red in the setting sun.
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Michael Delury
Michael Delury The hut in the bottom end of.the basin basin was a west coast branch of the NZ deerstalkers from my memory it was blown over late 70s or early 80s some material was recovered and stored just of where the old track climbed small bluff into basin @ bottom end we looked at building a bivy to replace the hut. I believe the hut on the ridge was a cullers camp

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