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HARD TO FIND, BUT AMAZING

I was surprised to see MOW Hut featured in Wilderness (‘Off the radar’, April 2020). My friend and I were there earlier this year. It’s an amazing place with very few visitors – only one or two parties a year.

We flew to outside the exclusion zone and were dropped off a couple of kilometres from the hut. We’d been told ‘It’s a bugger to find’, and it was. It’s a lovely wee hut. It has no

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