RACING the rising waters
AFTER SEVEN HOURS of splashing through a cold Te Urewera stream, Chris and Tami Green knew they wouldn’t be sleeping that night in a hut.
Exhausted, stumbling and cold, the Whakatane couple were long overdue and forced to admit defeat.
They had made good time walking from the car park to Koranga Forks Hut, but nearly doubled DOC’s conservative four-hour estimate for reaching Tawa Hut.
It wasn’t supposed to
