Thread: Tramper missing in Tararuas

Originally Posted by tetawa

Met some of your new recruits tonight who had been on a weeks exercise in Pureora Forest, the first couple were running, the next lot walking, the end of the line were hobbling. This was their easy training exercise, they are heading for Waioru in the morning to get really cold.

One of my grandsons is in the next intake in July. She’s bloody cold standing on the parade ground with the wind whipping around your arse. I did my basic in mid winter and remember the numb extremities well.

Originally Posted by Rushy

One of my grandsons is in the next intake in July. She’s bloody cold standing on the parade ground with the wind whipping around your arse. I did my basic in mid winter and remember the numb extremities well.

Would have been a lot colder then with "man made climate change" affecting them there now. The crew I met today were from Linton, the drivers had it cushy, waiting at the highway for them to drag themselves out 10 plus km after the week in there, been fairly cold and wet the last week, was 6`c when I left there.

winds were up to 140kms when Darren Myers left Arete bivvy to keep going on the Northern Crossing.
Just spend 4days up there, wasn't on the tops though. The search teams up there had a fairly hard time, snow was quite deep, and still blowing. it still is. Most got pulled out on Tuesday, rivers were too high to search tops were impossible to search in heavy rain/gales.
The teams back up there now wont be very warm.
Couldn't think of much worse place to come unstuck. for the missing person or search teams, or the controller figuring out where he is

The leather wood up there is bollocks I remember doing a SAR exercise at Nichols hut & dracophyllum biv , be hard yakka searching off of the track south of Nichols , was he carrying a plb ?

Originally Posted by Boaraxa

The leather wood up there is bollocks I remember doing a SAR exercise at Nichols hut & dracophyllum biv , be hard yakka searching off of the track south of Nichols , was he carrying a plb ?

no PLB

Originally Posted by Rushy

One of my grandsons is in the next intake in July. She’s bloody cold standing on the parade ground with the wind whipping around your arse. I did my basic in mid winter and remember the numb extremities well.

I was probably on the same parade ground 50 years prior to you Rushy,I hope the SAR team bring him back,good result from the team down South.

Originally Posted by Dundee

I was probably on the same parade ground 50 years prior to you Rushy,I hope the SAR team bring him back,good result from the team down South.

If you were on that parade ground fifty years before me Dundee you’d be a crusty old bugger now.

Searchers have located the poor guys body today. At least they will be able to return him to family to allow proper farewell.

BUGGAR!!!!!

Sad. Sympathy to his loved ones.

That really sucks man. Sympathy to his family

SAR are going to bring him home to his family.....well done folks,we cant save them all,but you gave it a plurry good try...

Sad news alright

Hats off to the guys out searching, sad result for the family. RIP

Very sad indeed. Valiant effort by LandSAR. RIP.