Distance: 4.6 km (2.5 DOC hours) - Unmarked route, clear - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 637m to 768m. Gain: 138m. Loss: 10m . Gradient: 2 deg (Flat)
Skills: - Streams (2/6)

Unmarked route, clear (7/9)
Unmarked route, follows obvious geography (river, spur, trail, etc)

Primary, mapped (1/5)
Formal route, on maps, principal access to hut or along range / catchment

Flat (difficulty: 1/5)
Flat

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

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

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

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

An unmakred route leads up the broad flats of the Kiwi valley from Hope Kiwi loidge - basically I just followed old tire marks up the flats (2007). Newer maps show a track weaving the valley floor so it may since have been marked.

The marked track started on the western bushedge at the end of the clear flats. A good cut marked track ran 1km to the signposted track junction on the low ridge above Lake Marion. (1hr15-2.5hrs)

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From the Marion Stream track junction a the cut marked track continues 1km to the bushedge at the start of broad, flat clearings in the Kiwi. The route down the kiwi was unmarked (2007) but easy going on grassy flats. Hope Kiwi lodge is clearly visible on flats on the true left at the confluence of the first major valley from the west. (1hr15-2.5hrs)