Snow-raking will continue on high country stations throughout Otago today.
More of the same weather is forecast, bringing cold temperatures but hardly any rain or snow to the region in the next few days.
A slight thaw is expected to continue, easing farmers' concerns for stock still stranded in snow.
Almost 100 people heeded the call yesterday for snow-raking volunteers, and more help was organised privately.
Otago Rural Support Trust co-ordinator David Mellish said the response was ''tremendous''.
He took calls from people in the North Island, the West Coast of the South Island and Christchurch, as well as those from Otago and Southland.
About 50 people were placed on high country stations to help clear tracks for stock to access feed.
A few volunteers stayed the night with farmers and would again be at work on stations today, Mr Mellish said.
It was a cold night on Sunday for 11 snow-rakers on Hamish Cavanagh's Hawkdun Station in the upper Manuherikia Valley.
After five hours' snow-raking they reached a musterer's hut near Falls Dam about 5pm, to find a track out had not been cleared, as planned.
A bulldozer had become stuck so tractors were not able to reach the hut and the 11 volunteers, many from Alexandra, had little choice but to hunker down.
Alexandra farmer John Waldron praised the Cavanagh family for keeping the hut stocked with food, coal and wood.
The snow-rakers had changes of dry clothes and huddled around a fire to keep warm during the freezing night.
They had radio and cellphone coverage so Mr Cavanagh knew all of them were in good spirits, and organised a helicopter to pick them up early yesterday.
''Everyone was in good company and made the best of a situation that could have been a lot worse,'' Mr Waldron said.
