Distance: 4.1 km (2.0 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 608m to 1255m. Gain: 647m. Loss: 4m . Gradient: 9 deg (Moderate)
Skills: - Occasional rivers (3/6) Winter - Snow/ice underfoot (2/7)

Tramping track (4/9)
Cut, marked tramping track: natural, rough ground surface

Primary, unmapped (2/5)
Route not on maps, but is 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

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

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

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

Leave the Poulter valley track where it intersects with the MTB/ATV track variant downstream of Fenwick Stream, and cross the Poulter (knee deep in normal flows but can flood quickly in heavy rain). Head up gravel flats in the lower Fenwick. Just as the Fenwick gorges out where the map shows riverside clearings ending, look for tape marking the start of the track on the northern bank.

A cut, tape-marked track mainly follows the spur running immediately north of Fenwick Stream. The track was cut by volunteers (Frank and Honora) but has been adopted by trappers with the Orange Fronted Parakeet predator tramping program and is not to DOC standard, but is easily followed (2019). The track ends at Ranger Biv.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

A good cut/tape-marked track drops mainly down the spur from Ranger Biv into the flats low in Fenwick Stream.

The track starts on the bush edge in front of Ranger Biv. It was cut and marked with tape & old permolat by volunteers (Frank King and Honora Renwick) and has recently been adopted by the Orange Fronted Parakeet predator trappers as part of their extensive trapline network in the Poulter Valley. The track ends at the head of gravel flats in the lower Fenwick Stream - on the northern bank where maps show the clearings ending. Follow the riverbed down from there, cross the Poulter (knee deep in low-normal flows) and intersect the ATV track up flats on the the western bank of the Poulter.