Red Hut

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Red Hut

 Photo: © Cecil Dobson

 

Hut Details
Hut Red Hut
Built 1947
Status Destroyed by fire in Jan 2003
Purpose Rescue Hut
Current Caretaker  
Location Ropers Saddle, Bogong High Plains Rd
History Application was made to erect a hut by the  Ski Club of Victoria, and they had all the materials ready for its construction. The application was rejected, so the material was left. 

Cecil  Dobson and Alfred Robins applied for a hut to be built at this location as a refuge hut. The application was approved on the condition that there were trustees appointed to care take the hut. 

They transported the 'pile' of material that had been left by the Ski Club of Victoria to the site on their backs, including the bath. The hut had a 'donkey' hot water system and was feed by a piped line, providing fresh running water 

Cecil and Alf took on the roll as trustees 

Photograph: 

Left to Right - Ron Roberts (Bluey), Ted Hamilton, Maurie Watts, Cecil Dobson, Lionel Elmore.

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