Hi Lop
Your second pic is from the AAWT looking east, towards Mackays Hut.Not quite. My second pic was taken from the hillside N of the Grey Mare FT, aiming back up Doubtful Ck. We had come down Doubtful from near Cesjacks, all the time on the true left bank, and we continued downstream until we ran into a rather serious gorge.
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The first half of problem here was that under the grass the rock is big, sharp and angular: real ankle-twisting stuff.
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It was late in the day and campsites were going to be in short supply for some distance (an hour or more), so we went up a side gully beside a long thin waterfall and camped up there. We were just 'wandering around' for about a week to see what was there.
As for the AAWT: from Dead Horse Gap to Tabletop Mt there is no really fixed route. Oh, I KNOW there is an official route, mostly on roads and hardened fire trails, all because Parks were having a bit of a snark-war with Lands at that stage. Iirc, it was over the little AAWT signs which Parks did not want polluting the place. When we did the AAWT (full length) we skipped the official route and went cross-country from DHG to Tabletop. We know the area well enough to not bother looking at the maps (but we were carrying them!).
Cheers
Roger