Distance: 4.2 km (2.3 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Moderate terrain
Altitude: 852m to 1391m. Gain: 566m. Loss: 59m . Gradient: 9 deg (Moderate)
Skills: Alpine weather (2/7) - Occasional rivers (3/6)

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

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

Moderate (difficulty: 3/5)
Occasional moderate climbs

Moderate (difficulty: 3/5)
Low scrub in open or bush / river rocks

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

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

Unknown (difficulty: 0/7)
Not specified

No description

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

The old Browning Pass pack-track zigzags then sidles north from Lake Browning down into the head of the Arahura. The descent is still benched and well marked, except for the final 20m scramble down into the river which has washed out and is steep and loose. A couple of kilometers of unmarked riverbed rock-hopping follow, with the banks becoming increasingly scrubby but the riverbed remaining clear. Look out for markers on the true left where scrub becomes thick. The track follows the left bank for a few hundred meters before climbing steeply up a streambed to the terrace above on the SW valleyside. Here we pick up the old bed of the pack-track again, benched into the hillside. This sidles the remaining 1.5km to Harman Hut - in a boggy basin above the Harman / Arahura forks.