The Snowy Mountains. Just at the snow line where the trees finish at Kosciosko National Park.
Kosciosko is the national park and township located around Mount Kosciuszko, Australia's highest mountain. It is located in southereast New South Wales, about 354km from the state capital of Sydney. It is part of the Main Range of the Great Dividing Range. This is known as a Snowys Hut.
Today, we recognise Australia's heritage in many ways from grooves in sandstone shelf near a watercourse to stockman's huts. The huts we help to conserve and caretake are a polygon of styles suited to the needs of pioneers, of grazing and goldmining. Basic structures mostly, but each one as any caretaker knows, imbued with the character of the scavenging capabilities or leanness of wallet of the builder.

There are huts still standing that seem to defy gravity. Over the passing years since grazing ceased, there are many which have succumbed; a pile of weathered timbers and corrugated iron. In some places is just a pile of stones, the remains of a crude chimney.

The remaining 100 huts have become a haven for safety from blizzards, a social centrepiece and a full dimension of history, a heritage of how people lived in the first half of the 1900s. They are not relocated to a "village" or reconstructed, they are maintained as close as possible to the original fabric, structure and method of construction as the owners built them.

Destructive fires in January and February 2003 destroyed more than 20 of the huts remaining at that time.