A brisk, 13km day walk up to Stockyard Spur, southwest of Canberra, on the weekend turned into exhaustion and a long, cold wait for help to arrive for an overcome bushwalker, one of five rescued in recent weeks from remote areas of the ACT.
Some had lost their way, others were overcome with fatigue and cases of mild hypothermia, and another suffered an injury which slowed progress so much that an easy day hike became a freezing late night, huddled out of the wind, and saved by just a brief window of phone reception to summon assistance.
