Distance: 5.3 km (4.5 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 428m to 847m. Gain: 91m. Loss: 497m . Gradient: 6 deg (Moderate)
Skills: - 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

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

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

Unknown (difficulty: 0/7)
Not specified

Follow the river flats 1km downriver to where mature bush begins, crossing where convenient and looking out for large DoC triangles on the bushedge on the south bank. These mark the start of the sidle track which leads a further 1.5km to the former site of Top Crawford Hut. This section was overgrown in 2007.

A good sidle track stays mostly well above the river from the old Top Crawford Hut site, dropping to cross Farquarharson Creek. This crossing was possible in moderate flows but would be tricky with more water present. The track resumes leading to Crawford Junction Hut on river flats at the Kokatahi / Crawford confluence, a further 1 km downriver.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

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