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Wet weather:! Even the fly poles were bent:'on this trip... Bruce Taylor, Ben Lee, Michael Brown, Roger Harvey, Richard Goldsborough, Russell Bishop;.and John Fox -ventured up the Waimakariri River to. the Carrington Hut,:. over Harman Pass.and then into the Taipo (on the West Coast), They then crossed the Hura Saddle (took one and a half days) to the Arahura Valley and then over Brownings Pass and out down the Wilberforce. True to form, the Taylor mob had seven wet days which included a violent electrical storm at Park Morpeth. -The fly. poles were even bent... .