Distance: 6.6 km (2.0 DOC hours) - Benched track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 10m to 60m. Gain: 75m. Loss: 30m . Gradient: 1 deg (Gentle)
Skills:

Benched track (3/9)
Benched, maintained, marked tramping track or pack-track

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

None (difficulty: 1/6)
No unbridged river crossings

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

From Wairauahiri Hut a boggy tramping track runs east for 1km before climbing a low escarpment and encountering the end of the old Port Craig logging tramway. The next 5km of tramway are not in great condition and are boggy / waterlogged in places. Francis Burn is crossed on an impressive trestle viaduct. A signposted track junction just before the next viaduct at Edwin Burn marks the turnoff to Okaka Lodge on the Hump Ridge Track.

1.5-2 hrs

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

The historic tramway continues west from Edwin Burn, though from here on is not so well formed and is marshy / waterlogged in places. One further viaduct is passed on the way - at Francis Burn. The tramway ends at the escarpment 1km before the hut and a rough, boggy tramping track runs the last kilometer to the river. The hut sits beside the swingbridge on the riverbank in a large clearing.

1.5-2 hrs