Search and Rescue check out the vehicle where missing walkers started from om the Silver Stream Valley Rd on Friday night. Trapped by high waters, a 24-year-old woman will spend a second night out in the Barrier Range, to the west of Lake Ohau. Police sent Search and Rescue personnel out to find the woman on Thursday and at 10pm she was located safe and well, but trapped by high waters. A police spokeswoman said the woman was at the South Temple Hut. The woman would be trapped by the Temple Stream South Branch, as well as, potentially, sidestreams and the North Branch.
Source: Otago Daily Times August 18, 2017 18:17 UTC