Baikie Hut

We walked up the Twizel Valley today to the Baikie Hut, a backcountry hut nestled by the Twizel River.

It's a walk of 8km to the hut from the Mt Cook Road. At an altitude of 690 metres, it was used by musterers when it was built in 1948, but is now a four-bunk tramping hut.

Matagouri bush surrounds the hut and obscures the river below. Unwanted wilding pines (seeding profusely in the valley) are in the distance, and beyond are mountains belonging to the Ben Ohau range.

A great walk in the Mackenzie Country....