Love Our Huts Campaign

Love our Huts and Tracks

Federated Mountain Clubs of New Zealand is running a campaign this November as a month-long celebration of huts, tracks and bridges all around the country. With your help, we’re aiming to have over 900 public huts visited this November to give them a spring clean and health check, including the bridges and tracks along the way.

We hope trampers, hunters, climbers, clubs and our wider outdoors community will join us in planning their trips, so the whole network is covered.

The hut health-check reports will form the basis of a draft strategy reporting on the current state of our public network of huts, tracks and bridges, and the options on how we can together protect and strengthen this network. A workshop mid next year will bring together those involved in maintaining, protecting and managing the backcountry network to consider these options and chart a path forward.

What’s involved

Select the hut(s) you want to visit and give a spring clean to. We’ll give you a simple checklist of things to do, and some tips and ideas on how to make the hut tidy and welcoming.

We’ll also provide a phone-based form to record the health check that you can easily sync with our hut database once you are back in wifi range. The health check will also involve recording recent entries in the hut book so we can find out in more detail the many ways our huts are being used to make a difference in conservation, being in the outdoors, and saving lives.

Register your trip

So you’ve decided you’d like to be part of this campaign – we’re stoked to hear that!

All you need to do is register your trip by following the link below. Use the form to select your hut, and also tell us details of when in November you might go, the number of people you are going with, and the planned route. It’s fine if dates, party size and routes change. If you are experiencing issues with the registration form, please try using Chrome browser.

Once signed up we’ll send you further details, as well as post some material (including some stickers etc) before you head away.

REGISTER HERE NOW

See full details from FMC

See their website here - https://fmc.org.nz/what-we-do/campaigns/love-our-huts-and-tracks/

For more information, please contact:

General information – loveourhuts@fmc.org.nz

Campaign and media inquiries – mick.abbott@fmc.org.nz

Clubs contacts – North Island: emma.gregg@fmc.org.nz, South Island: raymond.ford@fmc.org.nz

Keep in touch

You can follow the progress of the campaign on our  Love our Huts FB group or Instagram, where you can show off your love for the huts and share it with others. Keep an eye out for a special edition of the Newsletter. We’ll keep you posted, so together we can be sure we’re on track!