Letter of the month
THE FEW GIVING THE MAJORITY A BAD NAME
It’s a sad fact that any backcountry hut three hours or less from a road end, particularly if the walk is not too strenuous, will suffer from some sort of abuse. After years of hunting and tramping, I have also found the further one tramps into the hills the better the people that you meet frequenting the huts become.
I sympathise with your author Hazel Phillips who recounted negative experiences with hunters she met at Oamaru hut (‘Second hand socks and snowy tops’, June 2019).
I have seen this
