b'Dec 2021 Trackwatch.qxp_Trackwatch Layout 128/11/20215:38 pmPage 16The majesty of High Country splender - Bindaree HutThe walls are lined with tongue and year students and other schools providing shelter and warmth forgroove timber. Howqua Gap Hut is an hiking and camping through here. those in need.old logging hut and does have The hut has been managed as a GGS Hut; GEELONG GRAMMARhistorical significance to the area and cross country ski refuge ever since SCHOOL HUT. The original muchit is the last logging hut left on Mt logging ceased in the area. smaller hut was built in 1965 for theStirling. If you need to use this hut for The second hut is one of a couple Geelong Grammar School after theyemergency shelter, please keep the of new huts and shelters that has had applied to have a hut built on topfire small; you can see this hut has been built on Mt Stirling over the last of Mt Stirling for their Timbertopalmost been lost in the past to a fire 20 years, built as a refuge for hikers students to use; it was granted with atoo large for the fireplace. This hut and cross-country skiers, due to the fee of $5 a year for the land lease.has been used by many seeking many trails that surround this area. It After 20 years the small hut had fallenrefuge, including GGS Timbertop first has a pot belly stove and water tanks, into disrepair and Ian Stapleton usedan army of students to upgrade theHowqua Gap Huts hut and clean it out in 1986. TheAlpine Resort people installed a two-seater toilet in 1985.It is now actively used by Grammarstudents to support bushwalking andcross-country skiing, but is open toothers to take shelter in with theunderstanding that the school havepriority on scheduled weekends whichis on the notice board in the hut andon the front door at different times ofthe year.Despite appearing small on the out-side, this well used hut consists of five14 DECEMBER2021 TRACKWATCH'