Distance: 4.7 km (2.5 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 596m to 717m. Gain: 143m. Loss: 221m . Gradient: 4 deg (Moderate)
Skills: - Streams (2/6)
GPX info source: Drawn on map

Dropping south from Mangamate Hut, the cut, benched track sidles the valleyside to reach Kakanui Stream. Here the benched track ends, and a more typical tramping track starts upriver, crossing the creek and wandering up the flats. 300m upriver is a fork, with the main flow entering from the SE. The track however, continues south up the smaller valley. Soon the track fades to a riverbed route, still marked, and we climb the creek upriver. Finally, a marked track cuts out of the creek on the west (true right) and climbs, sidling to the saddle at the valley head.

South of the saddle the process is repeated, the marked route dropping in-stream down the gully to the south, swinging west and joining Kakaiti Stream on flats below. 200m of good cut tramping track leads across flats to the signposted junction at the confluence with Taumutu Stream.

All streams are small and should not be an issue except in exceptionally heavy rainfall.

Last updated by: Madpom at 2014-09-18 22:43:43
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