Original artwork description:

This drawing is part of the Art of Hut collection. Drawings on North Island New Zea Land backcountry huts.

'It was a long day of fairly easy walking to this hut, until the last leg over the famous peaks in the range over which the track rises and falls again and again. We had all got pretty exhausted by that stage and I wasn’t so fit back then so I was about done for. Sometimes when you get exhausted your mind starts playing strange and illogical tricks, I remember seriously thinking about leaving my pack at the bottom of one steep peak and taking myself up, then coming back down for my pack, I didn’t feel strong enough to carry both me and my heavy pack! The first sight of this hut was a beautiful thing.

'This hut we call affectionately ‘Moon hut’ after a quote which Caleb repeated over and over to keep us going: ‘…we choose to go to the moon, NOT because it is easy, but because it is HARD!’ –J. F. Kennedy'

Materials used:

Tan Strathmore Papaer, charcoal and chalk