LOST IN TARARUAS
NIGHT SPENT IN OPEN TRAMPERS MISS TRACK (Special to THE SUE) PALMERSTON Monday. Fourteen members of the Manawatu Tramping Club, including two women, spent Sunday night in the open. They set out along the Tiritea basin intending to climb along the top ridge of the Tararuas to the Pahiatua track, but missed their way. X'one of them had been over the route before, but the leader, Mr. P. Vautier, had studied the map carefully. At the summit of the ridge a largo number of tracks led off in all directions, and there was no sign to indicate the right one. After several attempts the climbers decided to follow the Tiritea stream to the dam, but progress was difficult owing to the slippery state of the ground through recent rains, and the flooded stream itself.
It was growing dark, and at eight o’clock the party built a large fire on a shingle fiat. Little sleep was possible. Much of the time of waiting was spent in singing choruses. After an early start the climbers reached the caretaker’s house at the dam before a search party could start out.
Food supplies ran out during the evening, but Palmerston Xorth was reached so early that there was little hardship. •
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 540, 18 December 1928, Page 13
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