Distance: 4.5 km (2.0 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 580m to 776m. Gain: 227m. Loss: 144m . Gradient: 5 deg (Gentle)
Skills: - Streams (2/6)

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

Gentle (difficulty: 2/5)
Gentle slopes

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

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

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

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

Follow the signposted track from Gabriel Hut up the southern side of Gabriel Brook, climbing gently 200m to the saddle. The track descends the south side of Jollie Brook to the forks, swinging south and crossing to the eastern bank where Jollie Brook Hut is found in a large, open clearing. Good, marked, cut tramping track.

1-2 hrs

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From Jollie Brook Hut, the track crosses back to the western bank of the Jollie and heads upriver through thick beech forest. The forks are reached after 500m. The track swings west up the western fork, climbing 100m to the saddle before sidling the southern valleyside of Gabriel Stream to the Hurunui flats below. The track emerges at a signposted track junction beside the Gabriel Hut clearing. Good, marked, cut tramping track.

1-2hrs