Distance: 1.1 km (0.3 DOC hours) - Benched track - Easy terrain
Altitude: 764m to 812m. Gain: 0m. Loss: 48m . Gradient: 2 deg (Flat)
Skills: - Streams (2/6)

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

Flat (difficulty: 1/5)
Flat

Easy (difficulty: 1/5)
Grass / prepared surface

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

No description

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

A gentle, benched sidle track runs the 1km from the signposted Upper Takaka Junction to the Upper Gridiron rock shelter. The turnoff to Upper Gridiron Hut is 100m beyond the rock shelter and the hut a further 50m up the hill.

The track to Cloustons Mine starts 800m upvalley from the hut and is signposted.