Love Our Huts 2025/26

https://fmc.org.nz/what-we-do/campaigns/love-our-huts-and-tracks/

Get hyped everyone, it's time for FMC's (Federated Mountain Clubs) "Love Our Huts" campaign for 2025/26!!

This NZ-wide event involves volunteers doing cleanups at public DOC huts. This effort gives the outdoors community an opportunity to look after the backcountry network we all love, and provides DOC with up-to-date information on the maintenance needs of huts.

Information:

"1. Pick your hut(s), plan your trip

Choose one, two, or as many huts as you’d like to visit. In our registration forms, we’ve tagged some close-to-the-road huts especially for families and less experienced groups to register for.

2. Register your trip
Once you know where and when your hut loving will take place, and who will participate, register your trip below. Between 1 November and mid-March you can get out across the hut network. We’re first registering trips through to the end of January, so we know early which huts are covered. February and March will then focus on the huts still waiting — with any unbooked huts opening for Feb–March bookings just before Christmas.

3. Show your love
When time comes, give the hut a spring clean, do a simple health check using our checklist, and snap some photos of recent hut book entries as well photos of the hut. Once you’re back home, share your info with us. More details to follow soon."

VUWTC Love Our Huts trips from 2024: