Thread: Tramper missing in Tararuas

Originally Posted by ebf

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/113...tararua-ranges

How on earth anyone would think it was ok to attempt the northern crossing during the weather we've had since Thu night is just beyond me

Unbelievable !

But its Queens Birthday weekend,we gotta do it
We had one too
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12236699

Something doesnt sound right to me with that one....heres the stuffed article.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/113...son-lakes-area

doesn't seem right. seems the guy left her and went on to the hut. If they didn't have a PLB, probably no other choice. other than he retraces his route
you'd think he would have been more help staying with her. dry warm or whatever
who knows
and another couple were headed for trouble same time, same place. but lucky enough to get cell phone call out
could say both were dumb decisions, then you don't know what you don't know

Originally Posted by Tararuas hunter

doesn't seem right. seems the guy left her and went on to the hut. If they didn't have a PLB, probably no other choice. other than he retraces his route
you'd think he would have been more help staying with her. dry warm or whatever
who knows
and another couple were headed for trouble same time, same place. but lucky enough to get cell phone call out
could say both were dumb decisions, then you don't know what you don't know

Doesnt seen right that he made the hut that night but didnt/could radio for help till next morning? It is only a stuff article tho.
I dont recall if that hut has a radio in it I have only stopped in to cook a feed for lunch but it is a very popular hut and in peak season always has "Honorary hut wardens" so may well have a permanent radio.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Doesnt seen right that he made the hut that night but didnt/could radio for help till next morning? It is only a stuff article tho.
I dont recall if that hut has a radio in it I have only stopped in to cook a feed for lunch but it is a very popular hut and in peak season always has "Honorary hut wardens" so may well have a permanent radio.

I can’t recall there being a radio , it’s a long long way above the bush line that hut . It would have been brutal .


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Originally Posted by Munsey

I can’t recall there being a radio , it’s a long long way above the bush line that hut . It would have been brutal .


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Yea.....Its actually not all that high at around 1650asl but it is a long way from the bushline....especially from the mount Robert route with all that exposed ridgeline to walk its about the worst way possible to access in bad weather, Speargrass route keeps you in shelter 90% of the way and there is a hut at the bushline if conditions are too bad to continue...maybe the river put them off that route I dont know.