Lazarinis Spur Hut (Crowes)

Lazarinis Spur Track

Description:

Crowes Hut aka 'Lazarinis Spur Hut' is not far from Mt Skene – Very few used to know about this hut down the side of the mountain as it had no access by road. Thanks to Darren McRae for sharing some of its history… Darren has rebuilt it twice, it has his Jetmaster fireplace in it and on the first rebuild it had a barber pole stripe painted on the veranda post. It used to be a two separate roomed hut, with bunks in the front room and a hidden tool box built into the floor. It used to have all the windows blacked out to the road side in early days and no track down to it, until some deer hunters saw it while stopped for a leak and they cut a track down to make access. There were several other huts in the area from logging in the 50's and 60's and the mess hall used to be just down the road. This hut was made from parts of the other huts and maintained for years by Mr Crowe, who was a deer stalker hunter. We carted the old steel frame fireplace from N8 hut when it was burnt down to do a big cooking fireplace in the back wall for rebuild 2, but never got to that. The fireplace used to be out the back where the toilet was relocated by digging more drums into the ground at the last rebuild after the fires when a big tree fell through the middle of the hut.