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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 1, No. 9 June 01, 1938

Week-End Tramping Jaunt

Week-End Tramping Jaunt

It was a blithe and cheerful party that set out in the early hours of Sunday morning from Tawhai Hut in the Orongorongos. By the time the Wharekauhau Saddle had been reached the morning, which had been slightly over cast, changed to a glorious day with a clear blue sky and the party was greeted with a magnificent view of the Wairarapa, with the Kaikouras rising from cloud banks to the south.

Pushing on through leatherwood scrub, the party struck the blazed trail on the ridge. It then made for Boulder Saddle but one tramper took it into his head to take a short cut down off the ridge-into Boulder Creek without, of course, informing anyone else. When the saddle was reached his absence was noticed and immediately a search was instituted. No trace of him could be found, however, and after strenuous hallooing it was concluded that he had either taken a short cut down to the creek or had met with an accident. They accordingly pushed on and there, safe and sound at the hut, the prodigal was found. Only the general exhaustion of the party saved him from being the-fatted calf.

The last boat had now gone, but a member of the party (whose father must assuredly have been a saint) picked nearly everyone up, and weary trampers were all safe In bed by midnight.