Distance: 7.7 km (2.3 DOC hours) - Road - Easy terrain
Altitude: 652m to 821m. Gain: 294m. Loss: 137m . Gradient: 3 deg (Moderate)
Skills: - Occasional rivers (3/6)

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 (difficulty: 1/5)
Grass / prepared surface

None (difficulty: 1/7)
No alpine skills required

Occasional rivers (difficulty: 3/6)
Occasional rivers - impassible after heavy rain

Unknown (difficulty: 0/7)
Not specified

A good 4WD track runs up the north-eastern side of the Nigger/Poulter valley between Lochinvar Hut and Bull Creek Hut. This crosses Mt White Station land and permission is required.

From Bull Creek Hut, follow the riverbed 250m downriver and cross to the start of the 4WD track opposite. The river is generally ankle deep but can easily become impassable after rain. The track climbs from the Poulter onto terraces above, then climbs again to sidle to the Mounds of Misery and into the Nigger. About 1.5km after leaving the morraine debris of the Mounds, you find an airstrip on the valley floor and a track junction, with a track cutting back west and climbing gentle faces to Lochinvar Hut on the southern bushedge.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

A good 4WD track runs up the north-eastern side of the Nigger/Poulter valley between Lochinvar Hut and Bull Creek Hut. This crosses Mt White Station land and permission is required.

From Lochinvar, drop back to the valley floor and follow the farm track up the valley. The track cuts through old glacial morraine at the Mounds Of Misery and then sidles the eastern valleyside above the Poulter, dropping to Bull Creek via two terraces.

The track has been washed away on the Bull Creek riverbed - cross to the far bank and follow it upriver to Bull Creek Hut - visible on the bushedge. The river is generally ankle deep but can easily become impassable after rain.