Eight keen trampers met at Church Corner to travel to BenMore Station, not far from Springfield. There was no problem finding the well signposted car-park and we were soon walking on a farm vehicle track in pasture-land dotted with gorse. A few km in, the beech forest starts with a few minor crossings of 13 Mile Bush Stream.

From the car to the hut you gain about 300m in altitude. It took us 2 hours so we had an early lunch and lazed in the sun. The hut is an unusual semi A-frame design. The farmer warned us there were likely to be hunters in the area so we didn’t venture beyond the hut and returned to the cars at mid-afternoon—a good short day out.

We were: Maree Richard, Ruth Barratt, Norman Burden, Joy Schroeder, Dorota Giejsztowt, Sue Piercey, Chris Leaver and Kerry Moore (KM)