Distance: 4.9 km (2.0 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 558m to 670m. Gain: 92m. Loss: 190m . Gradient: 3 deg (Flat)
Skills: - 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

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

From Jollie Brook Hut, follow the cut marked track downstream, crossing the creek frequently. After 1km river flats commence, and a poled route runs down the open flats, crossing occasionally. Crossings were ankle deep in average winter flows. The track marking ends at the DOC boundary and you follow the river flats down from there, soon reaching the forks with the Cold Stream. The junction is not marked.

1-2hrs

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

Continue up the Jollie from the Cold Stream forks. Soon the DOC boundary is reached. The route above here is poled up the flats, crossing the river occasionally. Crossing were ankle deep in average winter flows.

Flats end 1km below the hut and a cut track through the bush commences, crossing the creek frequently. Jollie Brook Hut is on the eastern bank, 500m downstream of the main Jollie forks.

1-2hrs