This column's recent exposé on our beloved high-country huts including the former Lake Albina Lodge prompted one Canberra man to confess to his long love affair with the now demolished landmark.
The timber and stone eyrie overlooking one of Australia's most dramatic cirque lakes so enamoured Steve Allen of Charnwood that he admits he "used to virtually live there in the winter from the 1970s until they pulled it down in the early 1980s".