Distance: 8.4 km (5.0 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Moderate terrain
Altitude: 216m to 392m. Gain: 292m. Loss: 116m . Gradient: 3 deg (Moderate)
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

Moderate (difficulty: 3/5)
Occasional moderate climbs

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

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

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

Unknown (difficulty: 0/7)
Not specified

A good cut track leads through lush green bush, along river terraces up the Whitcombe from Frew Hut. Several small side-creeks are unbridged. Frew Creek is the largest, and easily becomes impassible. So long as Frew Creek is crossable the others should present no problems. As the river gorges out, the track climbs and sidles the face. The last 2km to Prices Swingbridge crosses almost continuous slips and slumps – meaning sections of track are often absent and making for slow going.

Soon after the swingbridge the track drops to broad flats of grass and regenerating bush. Passing through a serries of clearings, in one of which lies the Historic Prices Flats Hut. This is a beautiful slab hut, but certainly not sandfly proof, and probably better admired than stayed in.

The new Prices Flat Hut is 400m further up the track on a terrace overlooking the valley.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

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