Distance: 5.0 km (1.8 DOC hours) - Unmarked route, clear - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 673m to 756m. Gain: 83m. Loss: 10m . Gradient: 1 deg (Flat)
Skills: - Occasional rivers (3/6)

Unmarked route, clear (7/9)
Unmarked route, follows obvious geography (river, spur, trail, etc)

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

Flat (difficulty: 1/5)
Flat

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

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

Follow the often-dry gravel riverbed of the Lawrence upstream. Lawrence Hut sits on the western bank about 1km above Shingly Stream. Maps at least up to 2009 show the hut in the wrong place - it is tucked beyond a tongue of beech on broad terraces, 500m above the location shown on maps. The blue marker on this site is correct.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From Lawrence hut, follow the sometimes-dry Lawrence riverbed downstream over gravel and grassy river flats down to the Clyde.