Crowes Hut (Lazarinis Spur Hut)
Known as Crowes Hut or Lazarinis Spur Hut
Located on Lazarinis Spur near to Mount Skene. Crowes Hut aka 'Lazarinis Spur Hut' is not far from Mt Skene – Very few used to know about this hut down the side of the mountain as it had no access by road. Deer hunters cut a walking track to it a few years ago.
History:
This hut is one of a group built around the Whiskey Knob gold mining area, and has been rebuilt twice.
The hut was made from parts of the other huts and maintained for years by a Mr Crowe, who was a deer stalker and hunter.
Darren McRae has rebuilt it twice and shares the history of the hut. It has his Jetmaster fireplace in it and on the first rebuild it had a barber pole stripe painted on the veranda post.
Darren later carted the old steel frame fireplace from N8 hut when it was burnt down, to make a big cooking fireplace in the back wall for rebuild 2, but never got to that. The fireplace used to be out the back where the toilet was relocated. By digging more drums into the ground at the last rebuild (the second) after the fires when a big tree fell through the middle of the hut. It was then rebuilt again.
There were several other huts in the area from logging in the 50's and 60's and the mess hall used to be just down the road.
Construction
It used to be a two separate rooms, with bunks in the front room and a hidden tool box built into the floor. It also used to have all the windows blacked out to the road side in early days and no track down to it, until some deer hunters saw it while stopped for a leak and they cut a track down to make access. It is built over a pole frame and covered in corrugated iron, with an unusual chimney.
Page updated April 2025.
