Distance: 6.8 km (4.5 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 380m to 834m. Gain: 115m. Loss: 569m . Gradient: 6 deg (Gentle)
Skills: Occasional scrambles (3/7) - Occasional rivers (3/6)

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

Gentle (difficulty: 2/5)
Gentle slopes

Easy-moderate (difficulty: 2/5)
Tussock / river-gravel / open bush / cut track

Occasional scrambles (difficulty: 3/7)
Tramp with some scrambles and exposure to falls

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

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

No description

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From Mid Wairoa Hut a sidle track leads up the Wairoa valley to the forks below Top Wairoa Hut. The track crosses several steep faces and has 8 river crossings of the Wairoa - but is relatively good for a sidle track (not too many ‘unnecessary’ climbs and descents of the valleyside). From the forks, the track is not well marked, but climbs the scree-face on the north face of the southern branch, 200m above the confluence. From the top, you’ll pick up markers again and the cut track to the hut.