Distance: 2.6 km (2.5 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Moderate terrain
Altitude: 515m to 1088m. Gain: 4m. Loss: 573m . Gradient: 13 deg (Moderate-hard)
Skills: Alpine weather (2/7) - 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-hard (difficulty: 4/5)
Continuous moderate climbs

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

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

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

Unknown (difficulty: 0/7)
Not specified

From Browning Range Biv a cut, marked track drops very steeply down a spur, before hitting a streambed and following that down. Once on the flatter alluvial fan on the valleyfloor, a good cut track resumes and heads to the main Styx pack track which it hits 500m downriver of Grassy Flat Hut.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

Follow the Styx – Arahura pack track a further 500m downriver from Grassy Flats Hut to where a signposted track heads left to ‘Browning Biv 2 hrs’. The track is good, and cut across the flats as far as a stream, which it then follows steeply uphill for about 1km before cutting right onto a ridge. The track is well marked, and Browning Range Biv obvious on the ridge above. With a climb of 1000m in a little over 1km, this is a steep, hard ascent.