Mt Crichton Loop Track
Beech-forest loop past a sluiced gold gorge, a waterfall and a Depression-era stone hut.
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This guide to the Mt Crichton Loop Track near Queenstown follows Sam Summers, a young man who came to Twelve Mile Creek in nineteen thirty, as the Great Depression set in and a family of eleven siblings needed feeding. It turns on a gorge that looks wild but isn't, and on the schist hut he and his brothers built beside a waterfall. Best heard standing at the hut's door, with the creek below you.
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