Pictorial tribute to <span class="highlight">Craigs</span> <span class="highlight">Hut</span>

Thanks John,
That's the first time I have put it up online....... I really wanted to get back and get a better one though. The light is shocking :( Although I did the best I could do under the circumstances

Agree with John, Peter... That's quite the visual experience, well done.

Hi Blue

I was only there 2 weeks ago and it was an amazing day so i spent some time doing lots of shots, inlcuding some big panaromic ones, I have a beauty of the hut from the front gate.
Was always a fav place
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Nice one, I like that too... Seems to be one of those places where it's kinda difficult to take a really bad shot...

I should have read the earlier posts, then I wouldnt have had to post a stupid question.

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Was it a warm day?

The drive up the track must have been interesting.

Hi Pete,

It was probably even colder that day than the photo indicates.

Not sure if you know the area or not, but I actually drove up Monument Track to get to the top that day.

I find that track is quite easy when covered in snow - everyone seems to avoid it when it's like that - all the usual rocky areas get flattened by the snow and it becomes a relatively gentle drive.

I have only been up there once in January this year, and we drove in from the north from the loop road. We have a 8x10" blow up of a hut photo on the wall at home. It took some time to get the shot without people there because it was packed that day. 43ºC in the shade so it was just a little warmer than your visit.

We camped that night at Pineapple flat.

Cheers

Pete

I'll pay that one Truckster.

That looks wierd the way it took the hut and left half the surrounding vegetation. I'm wondering if embers set the fake bark roof alight and it took off from there. Fire acts in strage ways.

Pete

Pete,

That is exactly what happened.

There were several concerned people who were worried about the bark on the roof, which was put in place to hide the corrogated iron roof. Its not actually fake bark it is real bark, from real trees that was put there when the restoration happened. We were waiting to be able to get more bark from the trees to do the rest of the roof, which is why alot of photos of the back of the hut have only half the roof covered.

The embers actually got into the bark and set the roof alight which then took out the rest of the hut.

A friend and supporter of Craigs Hut got permission to take a chopper up there, to try and get there before the fire to get the bark off the roof, hoping that might help delay the fires, but unfortunately he was too late as the hut had already burnt down. Alll the footage we have seen so far of the hut burnt down is from his flight up there, as he took someone with him to film it.

Fingers crossed that the council does as they say they are going to do and get behind the re-build - they have never really supported the hut financially in the past - but there is always hope.

I have to work on my written communication skills. By "fake bark roof" I meant that the bark roof was not doing the job of keeping water out - that was what the iron was doing.

Perhaps "dummy roof made from real bark" would be better.

Still it is sad that it is gone. Even if it was only a movie set, it was still park of recent Australian history. A lot of people (us included) have visited it because of it's association with the movies.

Cheers

Pete

Yep worked well swagman,
you can see why they chose this location for the hut in the film. The outlook is breathtaking, thanx