Distance: 6.9 km (3.0 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 305m to 1078m. Gain: 5m. Loss: 778m . Gradient: 7 deg (Moderate)
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

Moderate (difficulty: 3/5)
Occasional moderate climbs

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

Unknown (difficulty: 0/7)
Not specified

No description

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From the car park follow a 4WD track up the hill until a sign points the way to the "Boyd Creek Tops", a short distance before the Southland Boys Highschool owned Boyd Creek Lodge. A well marked backcountry track crosses scrubby terrain and then climbs up through bush all the way to bush line where one last marker stands on a free standing pole out in the tussock.

There is a rock biv about 5 minutes from the bush line, under an overhanging bank. Large and seems dry, but very little flat ground. There is plenty of great camp sites at the bush line. Water can be found 100m south of the track end from tarns.