Distance: 1.1 km (0.5 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 894m to 1011m. Gain: 36m. Loss: 122m . Gradient: 8 deg (Moderate)
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

Moderate (difficulty: 3/5)
Occasional moderate climbs

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

A cut / marked track descends into the Irthing valley from the Irthing / Cromel saddle. The track hits the bushedge and ends with amazing views up the the valley head and Helen Peaks. A rough poled route crosses sometimes marshy scrubby flats to the two-bunk Irthing Hut, on the opposite bushedge.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

Follow the poled route across marshy scrubby flats to the western bushedge, where a cut/marked track commences. This climbs / sidles south to the Cromel / Irthing saddle. here there is a track junction (marked only with triangles) with tracks south along the ridge to Mt Bee, and SW to the Cromel.