D37- Sparrowhawk bivvy to Sunrise hut

As forecast its pissing down with a sttong wind. With travel from here on open tops, there's no choice but wait it out. By 10.30 the rains stopped. Checking the forecast there's more rain and 100kph gusts this afternoon so i make a dash for Sunrise. Once back on the main range i realise how shelterd the bivi was. Its hard to make any progress against the wind and im frequently blown off course, the ridge is wide again so at least im not going to get blown off. Dropping a stone in the wind it falls at 45 degrees.
The next band of weather comes through about halfway through, initially painfull wind blown hail, then sideways rain, visablility comes and goes. The last saddle before Armstong dips below the bush line and its slow going in thick, wet scrub.
Reaching Armstrong saddle the rain stops but the winds so stong im crawling across an exposed section to prevent being blown off. Sunrise hut sits 15 mins down a spur to the east. Its only 2pm but with next section being higher and quite narrow, theres no way im tackling it in this wind.
Sunrise is unlike any other Ruahine hut, there's no doubt its woth more than all the others I've seen so far put together.
Its a moden 24 bunk with a seperate kitchen, woodburner and flown in wood supply, with that comes visitors and looking through the book its rarely unoccupied. The fires going when i arrive and a few visitors come and go throughout the afternoon, despite the wind, tho none of them stay.