Distance: 2.3 km (2.5 DOC hours) - Unmaintained track - Moderate terrain
Altitude: 614m to 1073m. Gain: 8m. Loss: 459m . Gradient: 12 deg (Moderate)
Skills: - Occasional rivers (3/6)

Unmaintained track (5/9)
Former track, overgrown - markers / ground trail still followable

Primary, unmapped (2/5)
Route not on maps, but is principal access to hut or along range / catchment

Moderate (difficulty: 3/5)
Occasional moderate climbs

Moderate (difficulty: 3/5)
Low scrub in open or bush / river rocks

None (difficulty: 1/7)
No alpine skills required

Occasional rivers (difficulty: 3/6)
Occasional rivers - impassible after heavy rain

None (difficulty: 1/7)
No alpine skills required

An old track runs down the ridge from Carkeek Hut to Parks Forks. Hunters are all that keep this cleared, so it is overgrown and poorly marked in places.

The track starts very clearly cut from the hut, with sporadic marking. On reaching the dropoff after 1.5km, navigation gets tricky with multiple spurs to choose from. Compass is handy - and if you've gone nore that 20m without seeing signs of the track you're probably on the wrong spur.

Both the Wiohine and Parks are 4-6m wide at this point and knee deep. They are a simple crossing in low flows but both can easily flood.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

Both the Wiohine and Parks are 4-6m wide at this point and knee deep. They are a simple crossing in low flows but both can easily flood.

The track starts on a small peninsula between the Waiohine and Parks Rivers. Node about and pick up flagging tape marking the start of the track up the spur to the north. The track becomes indistinct and marking all-but stops, but going up is easy as there's only one ridge to follow. Once on the tops the ground trail becomes better as the gradient eases. An easy 1.5km walk on an unmarked ground trail follows to reach Carkeek Hut on the bushedgs.