Distance: 2.8 km (1.0 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 602m to 789m. Gain: 332m. Loss: 153m . Gradient: 10 deg (Gentle)
Skills: - 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

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

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

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

Follow marker poles south from Cromel Branch hut along the eastern valleyside to the end of the clearing. A good cut, marked track starts at the bushedge. Initially the track follows the creek before climbing and sidling the eastern valleyside. 500m south of the saddle (itself not obvious) a large DOC triangle marks the turnoff east to Cromel Base.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From the junction with the Cromel Base track, a good cut marked track sidles NNE aong the valleyside before dropping into the Cromel valley. The track ends at the bushedge, and marker poles mark the last few hundred meters to Cromel Branch Hui - on the eatstern bushedge of the large clearing.