Heavy snows cause Tukino car problems
The heavy snowfalls on the weekend saw 30 people 'snowed out' of Tukino Skifield. After their weekend' s trip to the club field, the group was ferried down to the base car park by four wheel drive truck, to find that their cars were trapped by the heavy snow. Not able to get back to the field huts, and not able to move the cars, they decided to drive out to the Desert Road and Waiouru, where the Army accommodated them on Sunday night. Monday morning the trucks drove to Ohakune to hire chains for the nine cars stuck back at the car park, then returned to dig out the vehicles. The club officers reported problems dealing with barrier staff on the Desert Road. "We'd come through a metre of snow (on the Tukino Road) in these things (indicating the off-road style four-wheel-drive trucks) with chains, and they weren't going to let us onto the Desert Road, which only had a few centimetres." FOOTNOTE: At the time the Bulletin went to press even more snow was falling as low as Ohakune, indicating more storm problems were on the way.
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Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 13, Issue 595, 18 July 1995, Page 6
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195Heavy snows cause Tukino car problems Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 13, Issue 595, 18 July 1995, Page 6
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