Thread: Hunting in the Kaimai ranges

Im yet to understand how people get lost, with all respect. Me and a mate were hunting Pureora a few years back. Neither of us are what you would call experienced hunters. We walked around for about 6ish hours and god knows how many Km. We never used the map, and the GPS wouldn't get a signal. We just used our 'mangation'. Turned up about 200m from the truck when we got back to the road. Never once were we worried about getting stuck in there overnight. I get you can get lost, but it really does come down to preparation and common sense.
The Kaimais is pretty basic really. If your lost lost, follow a creek out or keep going down hill. It will lead to a road at some stage. Same goes for MT Taranaki. Walk down hill.
Fiords, Uru etc a bit different. But if your hunting the really big ones, you need to sort it out before hand and be on to it.