Distance: 1.0 km (0.5 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 1338m to 1359m. Gain: 31m. Loss: 30m . Gradient: 4 deg (Gentle)
Skills: Alpine weather (2/7) Winter - Snow/ice underfoot (2/7)

Tramping track (4/9)
Cut, marked tramping track: natural, rough ground surface

Primary, mapped (1/5)
Formal route, on maps, principal access to hut or along range / catchment

Gentle (difficulty: 2/5)
Gentle slopes

Easy-moderate (difficulty: 2/5)
Tussock / river-gravel / open bush / cut track

Alpine weather (difficulty: 2/7)
Tramp on open tops, exposed to alpine weather

None (difficulty: 1/6)
No unbridged river crossings

Snow/ice underfoot (difficulty: 2/7)
Snow/ice likely on track

From the Parks Peak junction, the main range track swings west around the headwaters of the Makaroro. The tops are brad and marshy at first and the track little more than a poled route. 400m before the hut, beech forest is reached, and the marked cut track resumes, swinging east and dropping to the head of a small stream, where Aranga hut is located in a grassy basin.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From Aranga Hut the main range track heads west through beech forest before emerging onto marshy tussock tops. A poled route swings SE and reaches a signposted junction for No Mans / Parks Peak 800m later.