A corrugated iron hut sits low in open bushland, its doorway dark and unframed. Grey galvanised sheeting runs vertical, weathered but intact. A sheet of rusted iron leans against the base. Beside it, a snow gum rises tall, its bark stripped back in long ribbons to reveal salmon and cream underneath. Tussock grass grows thick around the foundations. The sky is heavy, overcast, pressing down on scattered eucalypts that thin out across flat country in every direction. Drovers' huts like this were built across the New South Wales tablelands and high country as rough shelter during seasonal stock movements. Simple single-room structures of timber frame and corrugated iron, they required no permanent foundation. Most date from the early to mid-twentieth century. Many were abandoned when long-distance droving declined after road transport became standard in the 1960s and 1970s.