Red Hut
Known as Red Hut or Yellow Hut
Located at Charlottes Pass, in the middle of a ski run built in the early 1970s. Grid Reference was originally listed as 196672 by Charles Warner, but should be at 198672. It was probably located on the top side of the road, with a small SMA hut on the lower side, opposite. This is a site only today.
History
Red Hut was built by the Lands Department and showed on their 1;63,360 scale maps.
Red Hut was the only hut destroyed by dynamite to make way for a new ski run at Charlottes Pass!
Construction
Timber with horizantal paling wall and wooden floor boards. Substantial stone chimney. Overall small in size.
References
Shown on the Charles Warner special list as Ref number 24056. Red hut does not appear in the KHA reference list currently.
Ted Fleming - pers comm - following a bushwalking trip in 1952.