Distance: 2.6 km (1.5 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 600m to 743m. Gain: 213m. Loss: 70m . Gradient: 6 deg (Moderate)
Skills: Occasional scrambles (3/7) - Streams (2/6)

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

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

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

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

From the signpost by the willow tree, an old pack-track climbs 80m of the face, crosses Roaring Meg Creek, and then sidles back to the main valley to the forks with Old Man Creek. This is a good track, used by mountain bikers at times. The creek crossing is small and should not be an issue except after heavy rain. The track then continues up river flats to Bullendale. Two huts exist at Bullendale - one on a terrace above the flats - not recognised by DOC, the second one 100m beyond the end of the flats, reached by a faint scrambling track on the south side of the river.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From Bullendale Hut, follow the faint scramble-track down to the river flats. A good trail runs down the river flats to the confluence with Old Man Creek and then makes a sidling climb of the eastern valleyside. The creek crossing is small and should not be an issue except after heavy rain. Passing Roaring Meg it crosses a spur then drops back to the main creek where a signpost marks the junction with the route from Dynamo Flat.