Distance: 6.9 km (2.0 DOC hours) - Road - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 761m to 1128m. Gain: 301m. Loss: 431m . Gradient: 6 deg (Moderate)
Skills: Alpine weather (2/7) - Streams (2/6) Winter - Snow/ice underfoot (2/7)

Road (1/9)
Formed road, 4WD track, etc

Primary, mapped (1/5)
Formal route, on maps, principal access to hut or along range / catchment

Moderate (difficulty: 3/5)
Occasional moderate climbs

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

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

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

Snow/ice underfoot (difficulty: 2/7)
Snow/ice likely on track

From the top of the Bullock Track, head west along an old farm track across the swampy head of Bullock Creek, before climbing to the tops beyond. The track circles the head of a valley, before dropping steeply (clay and dodgy in the wet for vehicles) into the Pomahaka at Junction Huts. The track crosses one fork of the river - fine except in flood conditions.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

A rough 4WD track crosses the creek (fine generally but can flood) and climbs the face east of Junction Hut. This track is on private land and only foot / MTB access is permitted unless you get the landowner's consent.

After a circling a basin to the south, the track drops into marshy flats at the head of Bullock Creek and hits the ridgeline fence at a junction at the top of the Bullock Track and Mt Hope Road.