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Originally Posted by mpf

manganuiohau ????

now how did you know that - yup more buggers lost at the lake over there than virtually any where else - the top part is easy country so hunter gets confused and heads down the valley - the one that walked 25 km was missing for a no of days over there - I think from memory 3 days - rang us from Mangataniwha station below lower Waiau Gorge - I am ( name ) I am at a sheep station - no one home used phone - okay true right - yes - bull dozer in shed - yes - stay we will get you - Andy Shaw was at Aniwaniwa with Jet Ranger - him and I flew over and got him - prick of a flight in a JR blowing and drizzle but we did it - he said did not want to be a burden to SAR- I am a member of Wellington SAR - Andy Shaw our local pilot then was sadly killed in a huey doing heavy lift in Wellington - how that hunter got thru the lower Waiau gorge beyond me on his own - I have done it as a group and its bloody nasty - we had a number of searches in the Manganuiohau for lost hunters but most would hit first clearing and stay there - the hut down in there the Otuanoa I wonder if that survived the Tuhou blietzreig - we did it up around 1990 - difficult to find but neat little bivy