K Col Hut
Saturday 4 June 2016
With the timber for the lining of the F.A. (Bobs) Peterson
Memorial Hut at K Col having been delivered by helicopter we were keen to start
the installation work. Greg had been
there earlier to place the timber out of the weather and inside the hut and
also carried back the helicopter rigging.
It normally takes about 1 ½ hours from the ski tows to
walk to the K Col saddle and involves several sections of boulders, the most
difficult of them on the descent from the Rodway Range. However, on this occasion, after a cold
clear night, conditions were very icy requiring great care and it took 2 hours
to get there. With short daylight hours
we had to start back by 3PM, so time there was more limited than in the summer
months. Fortunately, a lot of the ice
had melted and we made much better time.
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| View from Rodway Range |
The hut is A framed with an upper sleeping platform.
The existing interior wall lining is Masonite and is quite warped and stained
and does not look very good. One side of the bottom section was relined and
most of the old Masonite cut to fit behind the new Tasmanian Oak tongue and
groove boards. One end met at a straight
edge but the other finishes at a sloping stone wall necessitating shaping the
boards to the rock.
An aluminium sign was placed on the wall in
acknowledgment of the grant obtained from the Tasmanian Community Fund that paid for the timber and helicopter
use.
Further sessions will be scheduled when the daylight
hours are longer.
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| New wall lining for K Col hut |
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