Distance: 1.7 km (1.5 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 935m to 1324m. Gain: 10m. Loss: 399m . Gradient: 14 deg (Moderate)
Skills: Alpine weather (2/7) - Streams (2/6) Winter - Snow/ice underfoot (2/7)

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

Alpine weather (difficulty: 2/7)
Tramp on open tops, exposed to alpine weather

Streams (difficulty: 2/6)
Small streams, danger only in extreme weather

Snow/ice underfoot (difficulty: 2/7)
Snow/ice likely on track

From Heather Jock Hut the track drops gently south - an old 4WD track. 300m from the hut a signposted track junction marks the turnoff to Jean Hut. To head to Bonnie Jean, ignore the turnoff and continue to sidle the 4WD track upstream into Bonnie Jean Creek. After 1km the track becomes indistinct and a badly poled route zigzags down the face to Bonnie Jean Huts below. The huts and equipment shed are closed off with bars - but you can peer through at the equipment and possessions of the former miners.

A clear poled route drops from Bonnie Jean hut into Bonnie Jean creek, where Boozer Hut is visible on the opposite bank. The creek is easily hopped across in normal flows, but could flood in extreme conditions. Boozer Hut is weathertight, but is a historic hut available for day use only.

From Boozer Hut a poled tramping track sidles out of Bonnie Jean Creek on the southern side for 500m before dropping to reach the end of the My Judah Road at the signposted Jean / Bonnie Jean junction.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

The Bonnie Jean track climbs the face from the Jean turnoff - now just a tramping track rather than a roadbed. Follow the poled route, which sidles the face cutting 500m upstream to cross the Bonnie Jean Creek at Boozer Hut. Boozer Hut is weathertight, but historic and available for day use only.

The creek in ankle deep and easily hopped across in normal flows, but could flood in extreme conditions.

The track is poled and climbs steeply to Bonnie Jean Huts, vizible perched precariously on the face above. The huts and equipment shed are closed off with bars - but you can peer through at the equipment and possessions of the former miners.

Above Bonnie Jean the track becomes indistinct, but continues to zigzag up the face for another hundred vertical meters before becoming obvious again as a former vehicle track, sidling and climbing north towards Heather Jock Hut. 300m before the hut a signpost marks the turnoff back down to the road via Jean Hut.