For the wapiti bugle of 1980, Vern, accompanied by his friend Peter Townsend, drew the Wild Natives River block, which drains into the top end of Bligh Sound.
Faulks’ association with the Makarora Valley had made him popular with a number of early stalkers – men like John Forbes, Carlisle Studholme and Major Robert Wilson...
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