You could park a car at each road end and if like you started out at Mangatapopo and got to Keteahi and the car was still there you could assume that the car at Mangatapopo was probably gone and save time by taking the desert road home. And if you were robbed of all your belongings except your undies by two guys with a shot gun at Keteahi I'm sure you could hitch home. Well my experiance ant Mangatapop was that the Subarau stationwagon was entered through a hole cut in the driveres door. (no doors or windows were broken but there was a person sized hole in the door) and the stereo and cd's were taken. Note the face of the stereo was under the seat and so were the cd's and nothing of value could be seen from outside. Megan had both the front and drivers side windows of her corolla broken by her stering wheel lock but the crooks didn't manage to break through the drivers side "a" pillar (though it had taken a beating with an ice axe) and so hadn't managed to get it out of the car park. My car had all its lights broken, a few extra dents, a broken window, the horn removed and half the dash riped apart. It was still there as not only did it have an imobileser but I had also taken the Fuel Pump Relay out. Chris's corrola was never seen again unless you count the broken pieces of lights and bumber in a ditch near a sharp corner along the road.