Distance: 6.3 km (4.0 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 199m to 482m. Gain: 61m. Loss: 283m . Gradient: 3 deg (Moderate)
Skills: - Streams (2/6)

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

Moderate (difficulty: 3/5)
Occasional moderate climbs

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

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

Streams (difficulty: 2/6)
Small streams, danger only in extreme weather

Unknown (difficulty: 0/7)
Not specified

From the A Frame Clark Hut follow the track into the bush as it leads through a low saddle at the top of the Grebe Valley. The track is good as far as the descent northwest of Point 452 where there was quite a steep descent down an active slip with a lot of erosion. At the base of the hill continue down through bush to reach the Monowai Hut on the edge of the lake. The hut is frequented by boatloads of hunters and fishermen and has been trashed by drunken idiots. In 2012 it was full of bullet holes, rubbish and mice. You might want to camp further to the east on the beach if you can stand the sand flies.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

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