A Rough Trip.
A party of nine ladies and five men experienced a rough trip oyer the. McKinnon Pass, on the Milford track, on Sunday of last week. Just after they left the Quintin huts, the rain, which had been falling fairly steadily, increased in intensity until by the time the tourists had reached the top of the pass it was a heavy deluge—one of the heaviest that had been experienced on the track for a long time. On the Pompalona side of the track the party was faced with real danger. All the creeks were raging torrents, and they were rising every minutes, and there were several narrow escapes from drowning. In some places, the travellers had to use the telegraph wires to assist them in fording the streams, while more than once they were compelled to leave the track in search of a less dangerous place to cross. The distance between Quintin and Pompalona is nine miles, and it .took.,the party nine hours to reach their destination—the last two miles -taking four hours. A rescue party was despatched from Glade House, but it was unable to reach Pompalona.
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Thames Star, Volume LXI, Issue 16781, 27 January 1927, Page 5
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190A Rough Trip. Thames Star, Volume LXI, Issue 16781, 27 January 1927, Page 5
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