Keebles Hut at Geehi

In 1948 the Nankervis farming family from around Khancoban, asked Arthur Keeble, an engineer friend working on the Kiewa Hydro Scheme, to assist in building some huts for their stockmen on the Geehi Flats at the base of Mt Koscusicko. The hut locations in those days were a good 3 days trek through the most wild bushland in Australia. Keebles Hut is probably the most famous and most visited of the several huts within the Geehi Valley.
Arthur Keeble recruited two men from the Kiewa Scheme, Clarence 'Snowy' Miller (stonemason) and Alex Milochovich (carpenter) and on horseback the team ventured into the rugged bush with bare necessities to commence their historical challenge. Snowy also applied his trade to other huts in the area.
Why this story is so important to us, is that Snowy Miller and his wife Lorna were close family friends to the Gordon White family, within the Kiewa Hydro Scheme at Mt Beauty, in the 1940's and on-wards to today. Both Cheryl Seymour (Miller) and Kim White were born in 1948 in the Yackandandah hospital, the only hospital around and 50km from their hometown of Mt Beauty.

The surviving Snowy and Lorna Miller family of Dorothy, Cheryl and Raylene have visited the hut in recent years. Their family information has been shared with the Parks and Wildlife Department of NSW and a plaque was erected with details of the historical events from those early days.
Cheryl and husband Bevan Seymour have returned to the hut several times. Some time ago they invited and accompanied Kim and Helen White to share their experience. 
Cheryl having lunch within the surrounds of the river stones that her father concreted river rocks together when constructing this wonderful refuge hut in the year that she was born, 1948, over 66 years ago.

Snowy's Slideshow

This slideshow captures the Keeble Hut story with many of the wonderful high country views, the magnificent workmanship and hard work of our foreparents of many years ago. Arthur Keeble, an engineer from the Kiewa Hydro Scheme, was the building foreman, he to which the hut's name was honoured.
Snowy Miller, pictured below, was the stonemason and main tradesman behind the building of the hut for the Khancoban farming family of the Nankervis name. Snowy also built the War Memorial Cenotaph outside the Mt Beauty Hospital in 1953. His kind workmanship is featured later in this slideshow and video below.

Videos of Snowy Miller

Actual archive and very rare footage extracts of Snowy Miller and others building the famous Keebles Hut on the Geehi Flats in 1948.

Clarence (Snowy) Miller

Snowy took his annual leave from the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, in Mt Beauty, to build the Mt Beauty Cenotaph for the RSL in 1953. His volunteer work on this project was much appreciated and, fittingly on the day of 11/11/2011, Snowy was honoured by the community where a plaque was unveiled by an Alpine Shire representative, Peter Roper. The ceremony was attended by many townsfolk and a wreath laid by the family of Snowy at the plaque.
Snowy Miller (above) donates his time and stonemason skills to build the RSL Cenotaph (below) at Mt Beauty in 1953.
Video of the unveiling of the plaque.
Raylene, Cheryl and Dotty (daughters of Snowy Miller) at the plaque unveiling.