Photographer: Josh Eckels
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Early morning drizzle
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Packing up and enjoying the shelter
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Ready and pumped
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Maximum: 2
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Waterfalls popping up
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Water falling, on the ground and in the air
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Not yet raging
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Follow the orange
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Scooting across
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Stepping down
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No pausing for a bit
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We can all fit on this one at once
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Last view of the flats
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Not an encouraging forecast
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Departing Routeburn Falls Hut as the rain picks up
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Routeburn Falls
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Climbing toward Lake Harris
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Gray and foggy
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Lake Harris
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Outflow from Lake Harris
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Taking refuge in the Harris Shelter
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A cliff-full of waterfalls
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Descending to Lake Mackenzie
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The unrelenting rain
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Time to wade
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Down at Lake Mackenzie
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Under the Lake Mackenzie kitchen shelter
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So warm and dry
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Pouring rain outside
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Hunkered down
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Starting to stop raining
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A few drips still onto the lake
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Lichens on the trunks
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Tents up
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Water on the trail
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Blue sky!
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Track to the campsite
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Tiny leaves
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Birch section
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Moss section
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Carpeted
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Waterfalls disappearing
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Keep out the huts, campers~
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Bare rockface
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Slowing down
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All sorts of shapes
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