Taffy Hut
Canterbury · Nouvelle-Zélande0 mUnguardedVerified listing
The place
Taffy Hut in the Canterbury region, upper Rangitata valley/Erewhon sector (South Island, New Zealand), at 717 m elevation. Continuous Canterbury Rangitata cluster (batches 230+239+244). DOC or historic musterers' hut converted into a free shelter on the Arrowsmith Range/Two Thumb Range routes. Area of tussock (Chionochloa) and beech forest (Southern beech), the "Erewhon" area of Samuel Butler (1872, dystopia based on his experience as a sheep farmer).
Off-season beds
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The setting
Canterbury Rangitata/Erewhon NZ 717 m, continuous cluster batches 230-244, DOC/musterers tussock/beech, Samuel Butler sheep-farmer dystopia 1872.
