From Top of Spur above Crow Hut to Crow Hut via track part 1
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Distance: 2.2 km (2.5 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 797m to 1499m. Gain: 39m. Loss: 741m . Gradient: 21 deg (Moderate-hard)
Skills: Occasional scrambles (3/7) - Streams (2/6) Winter - Iceaxe/crampons (4/7)
GPX info source: Drawn on map

From Rongotea highpoint, drop NW along untracked tops passing a small tarn. Occasional warratahs exist, but the track is not well defined. After 500m the ridge broadens to become the Mokai Patea plateau. Round the head of the 1st southern sidecreek, and get onto the spur. Once on this you will pick up a good ground trail and frequent markers. The track is cut through scrub but very steep and exposed above the bushline. A fall would be bad, and an ice-axe at minimum is recommended in winter.

Once in the bush a good track runs down the spur to meet the Kawhatau River 300m above the hut. Sticking to the true right, round below some bluffs in the riverbed, and pick up the track again on the true right bank. This climbs and sidles, before crossing the river to the hut over a swingbridge.

Last updated by: Bozzy at 2024-05-17 09:30:25. Experienced: 2009-06-17
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