Extract from Max & Bert Oldfield's Hut Conservation Study prepared for the Kosciusko Huts Association by Matthew Higgins and David Scott, December 1992.
Chapter 11 - the Egg Lady Who Taught The Piano And A Place Called Dartmoor
Back then, it snowed in the first week in June every year. It never failed. Set your watch by it, sort of thing.
Chapter 12 - Dartmoor - The Coldest Place On Earth And A Royal Horse.
For sheer cold, for pure numbness of spirit and everything you didn't have protected, you couldn't go past Dartmoor in mid-winter.
A collection of images, that should be self-explanatory, relating to Peppercorn Hut.
See also: Francis Dunn's Grave
First published in the Queanbeyan History Bulletin, March 1976.
I was about twelve when I first started to work with teams, and about fourteen when I started to drive them on my own.
As the fires approached Paupong in 2003, Raymond Wroe took the initiative to save Charlie Rugman's hut by carefully numbering and disassembling the building to remove from the site.
As the fires approached Paupong in 2003, Raymond Wroe took the initiative to save Charlie Rugmans hut by carefully numbering and disassembling the building to remove it from the site.
The huts in the high country were built by stockmen, prospectors, recreational fishermen, skiers and the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority to meet their accommodation, shelter, recreational and hydrology needs at the time. Many of these huts have been lost through fire and decay, but around120 of them still remain. These are now cared for co-operatively by KHA and the Park Services.
Dick Schofield was one of the builders of Gavel's Hut. Dicks recollections add a little more to our records of the skills of dog trappers.
The Hotel Kosciuszko burnt in 1953, leaving Sponar's Inn - the original staff quarters - standing.
Extract from "Early days of the upper Murray" - Jean Carmody.
Two interviews with people who lived and worked in the Pilot Wildeness, south of Thredbo.
What we do
- Protect and enhance the cultural heritage values
- Conserve historic huts and associated structures
- Provide input into government planning processes
- Create heritage awareness amongst the general public
- Maintain the art and craft of traditional bush building skills and knowledge.
400 + Memberships
75 + Huts
Latest News
Over the past forty two years KHA has carried out maintenance activities
on most of the 90 or so remaining huts and homesteads in KNP and NPP.
Learn more about what we have been up to recently.
Heritage Symposium report
Read Mark Grundy's report on the recent ACT Region Heritage Symposium 2024 held in August at the
Australian National University in Canberra.
Books for sale
Graham Scully is selling some books on behalf or another member who is downsizing his collection.
Books will be sold at cost plus postage to interested KHA members.
Four Mile Hut reopens
On Saturday 20th April, a group of 70 people watched on as Four Mile Hut was reopened after being rebuilt following destruction during the 2019/2020 bushfires.
The Huts
The heritage huts of the Snowy Mountains are structures of national significance
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