Distance: 13.2 km (7.0 DOC hours) - Unmaintained track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 293m to 536m. Gain: 147m. Loss: 374m . Gradient: 2 deg (Gentle)
Skills: - Prolonged rivers (4/6)

Unmaintained track (5/9)
Former track, overgrown - markers / ground trail still followable

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

Gentle (difficulty: 2/5)
Gentle slopes

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

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

Prolonged rivers (difficulty: 4/6)
Frequent river travel - impassible after rain, risk of getting trapped

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

4hr+. Follow river flats downriver from the hut. The valley soon tightens to a gorge and travel is in the riverbed with short sections of track until the Tirauma Forks 5km downstream. Crossings are frequent – generally knee deep in normal flows. This section is impassable after rain.

Below the main forks river flats are present and a track follows them downriver, crossing a further 8 times. The track is not marked, but is fairly obvious on the ground. A run-down fence is crossed, and soon after the route makes its final crossing to the northern bank. From here the track is poled, soon entering paddocks on terraces on the northern bank. The track ends at a DOC carpark 1km from the main road.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

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