by Miguel Yamin | Nov 27, 2020 | Stories from Kosci
Four Mile Hut is a few kilometres gentle walk or ski from Kiandra or the Selwyn resort in the northern part of Kosciusko National Park. Built in 1937 by gold fossicker Robert Hughes, it has a colourful history. Until about 1981, there was a box of very live dynamite... 
by Miguel Yamin | Nov 27, 2020 | Stories from Kosci
In the late 1970s I started working in the Dead Horse Gap – Main Range area on my PhD. I was studying small mammals and insects. I set up camp in a pleasant spot just above the treeline and near my study areas, and used the faint footpad from the crest of Dead... 
by Miguel Yamin | Nov 27, 2020 | Stories from Kosci
In my life as a biologist I have done many strange things. I composed a poem for the backs of ski-lodge toilet doors, asking people to save pygmy possums and other small mountain animals from drowning by keeping the lid closed. Over two winters I trapped and collared...