Rocks Hut. Organiser: Gretchen Williams

Party: Alison Nicoll, Gretchen Williams, Ross Price, Tony Haddon.

Collected Ross from the Brook Camp and Tony dropped us off at the Maitai Dam and then went home to his garden. We made good progress up to Dun Saddle where we had lunch before heading up to the Dun summit because Alison and Ross had never been up there. We arrived at Rocks Hut with its splendid yellow inside paint job at about 4pm after the obligatory clamber up the large viewing rock along the ridge. The fire was lit but it was still early so Alison and I went further along the ridge for a look see. When we got back Tony had arrived and then a party of 5 arrived from The Hackett (I don’t think the hut has been that well used for ages!).

On Sunday we went up to the lookout by the hut and had lovely views of where we were headed that day and of all the rock outcrops along Rocks Ridge. We explored the copper mine and had an uneventful trip back along the Dun walkway to the Brook.