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Someones bighorn is very cold

Postby geeves » Tue May 24, 2016 5:09 pm

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zea ... tago-hills
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8032033 ... siast.html


First link has a short vidio that starts with a pic of a very frozen looking bighorn. I though in another post I cant find now there might also be a Mu.

Anyone doing a trip report on this adventure?
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Re: Someones bighorn is very cold

Postby turnturn » Tue May 24, 2016 8:03 pm

I've been over there before. Like most of the Central Otago/Southland hills it can get pretty miserable relatively quickly, even in summer.
Apart from maybe not taking enough caution with the weather it doesn't seem like they were a bunch of Muppets or anything. Rasonable vehicles, and numbers, with reasonable equipment. Just got unlucky.
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Re: Someones bighorn is very cold

Postby mrsuzu » Wed May 25, 2016 4:42 pm

Two of the girls form my work place were there stuck in the snow and had kids, and yes there was a MU, and according to her, it had something happened to 4 4 and was only running on two wheels, sadly according to her Mu was the worse of it..
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Postby mrsuzu » Wed May 25, 2016 4:43 pm

turnturn wrote:I've been over there before. Like most of the Central Otago/Southland hills it can get pretty miserable relatively quickly, even in summer.
Apart from maybe not taking enough caution with the weather it doesn't seem like they were a bunch of Muppets or anything. Rasonable vehicles, and numbers, with reasonable equipment. Just got unlucky.


As for i know Two of them were with very good trucks and almost go off roading every sunday, i wuld say they got unlucky, one of the boys recently spent 20k on his Hilux truck..
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Re: Someones bighorn is very cold

Postby geeves » Sat May 28, 2016 7:54 am

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Re: Someones bighorn is very cold

Postby mrsuzu » Sun May 29, 2016 10:49 am

geeves wrote:
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Just saw on the news, The council and Police declined them to go up and grab the trucks, they arranged Bulldozer and helli. That's bizarre.
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Postby geeves » Sun May 29, 2016 1:52 pm

Council was worried about safety and damage to the road. Twas a fair call.
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