Distance: 3.6 km (2.0 DOC hours) - Unmaintained track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 815m to 897m. Gain: 82m. Loss: 24m . Gradient: 2 deg (Flat)
Skills: - Occasional rivers (3/6)

Unmaintained track (5/9)
Former track, overgrown - markers / ground trail still followable

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

Head up the riverbed / grassy flats from Waterfall. After 3km the flats end and the river starts to enter a V in the valley floor. Reardon Hut is 500m east of the river in a basin against the scrubedge 20m above the head of the flats. The Dobson river is small and easily crossed, but could flood in rainy conditions. In the dry it disappears completely.1-2hrs

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

Faint old 4WD tracks lead down river flats from Reardon Hut. Some travel on grassy flats, other parts on shingle riverbeds. Waterfall hut is tucked in a tight canyon-like valley on the east of the Dobson. The Dobson river is small and easily crossed, but could flood in rainy conditions. In the dry it disappears completely. 1-2hrs.