Distance: 21.5 km (10.0 DOC hours) - Unmaintained track - Moderate terrain
Altitude: 308m to 499m. Gain: 270m. Loss: 461m . Gradient: 2 deg (Flat)
Skills: - Occasional rivers (3/6)

Unmaintained track (5/9)
Former track, overgrown - markers / ground trail still followable

Secondary, mapped (3/5)
Formal route, on maps, an alternative recognised access to hut or along range / catchment

Flat (difficulty: 1/5)
Flat

Moderate (difficulty: 3/5)
Low scrub in open or bush / river rocks

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

Occasional rivers (difficulty: 3/6)
Occasional rivers - impassible after heavy rain

Unknown (difficulty: 0/7)
Not specified

No description

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From the Boyd Creek carp park follow the 4WD track that heads up the hill until a snow pole is encountered on the south side of road. Cross a small clearing here on the south side of the 4WD track and enter the trees. A good quality, orange triangle marked track, runs southwards for about 20 minutes. Keep an eye out for a faint track intersection where the good quality track swings eastwards and a pair of crossed branches cover a faint ground trail continuing southwards. Follow the faint trail, often heavily overgrown and sporadically marked with pink tape. Cross the first clearing you come to and look for markers on the south side. Continue on to the north branch of Dunton Creek from where the marked route climbs away from the mapped route, eventually being about 500m east of the track on the map. The marked route reconnects with the mapped track at the south branch. Climb the hill to reach a 2nd clearing. Things get a bit fuzzy here as the mapped track does not exist on the eastern side of the clearing. I headed southwestwards and blundered into the marked route at about CC08 035817 running northwest to southeast, again about 500m from the mapped track. All I can really say is good luck for this section! The marked route heads to the northern point of a large clearing. Cross the clearing to the stream flowing through it and follow the stream to the southeast end of the clearing. Look for blazes running in a straight line up the hill directly to the top of Dunton Swamp. At the edge of the swamp tape markers ran out so I followed the bush edge down the swamp. Watch for places where the swamp extends into the trees and the going is slow. Finally round the last trees to reach a 4WD track on the true right of the Upukeora River. Follow the 4WD track upstream, crossing to the true left when the 4WD track does, and continue up to Army Hut.