View up Paringa River from start
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Paringa - Marks Flat - Clark South Westland 7-14 February
8 day trip with 5 of us. Route was up the Paringa to McCulloughs Creek, Marks Flat and down the Clark to the Haast Road
Side stream near the fork with the Otoko River
View down Paringa river from Stew Creek to the Otoko Forks
Private hut at Otoko forks
Crossing an unnamed side stream
Serpentine Creek and the head of the Paringa
Tunnel Creek Hut in the Paringa - 1st night
Near the hut
View up valley from Tunnel Creek Hut
Climbing up next to Tunnel Creek
Rock bivy above the Paringa
Lunch in the bivy
Sidling the ledges to the head of the Paringa
Tarn on the ledges
View of route through to the head and the pass into McCullaugh Creek
On the pass looking down McCullaugh Creek
The pass
Dropping into McCullaugh Creek
Camp in the head of McCullaugh Creek
Rain coming in the morning
Going down the head of McCullaugh Creek in the rain
From near our bushline campsite looking up the Clarke
Rain at bushline camp
Looking down the Clarke
Slow going along a high bench
Some rocky bush travel
Crossing the Clarke above Monro Flat
Camp by Saddle Stream in the Clarke
Climbing up Saddle Stream
Near the top of Saddle Stream
Mt Hooker from the saddle
On the saddle looking towards Mt Gow and Lower Otoko Pass
Mt Hooker from the saddle
By-passing a swamp on Marks Flat
View up valley at Marks Flat
Heading down to the rock bivy on Marks Flat
The Marks Flat bivy
View of the flat and the Solution Range from the bivy
Julies comfy spot
Morning mist
Forest in Saddle Creek on the way down
Mt Hooker
Below Monro flat, Clarke River looking at Hooker
Campfire in the Clarke
Clarke River
Shoulder above Davies Flat in the Clarke
Clarke River not far from Rough Creek
The lower gorge in the Clarke - we went around it
Climbing around a gorgy bit
Rough Creek-Clarke fork looking south
Clarke at Rough Creek
Checking the Landsborough River crossing
Looking up the Clarke from our camp on south side of the Landsborough
Evening looking towards the Haast River
Mt Hooker from the lower Landsborough
