Distance: 1.7 km (1.0 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 274m to 574m. Gain: 367m. Loss: 77m . Gradient: 15 deg (Moderate-hard)
Skills: Occasional scrambles (3/7)

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-hard (difficulty: 4/5)
Continuous 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

None (difficulty: 1/6)
No unbridged river crossings

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

From Possum Hut a very steep, slippery climb takes you up 100m onto the spur above through manuka forest on a cut/marked tramping track. Once on the spur gradient decreases and the track climbs steadily west up the spur, before sidling the southern face to intersect the Silverpeaks Route south of Green Hill. The track junction is signposted.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From the signposted track junction south of Green Hill, the Possum Hut route (cut/marked ramping track) sidles the southern face of the hill onto the spur through mature manuka forest, before dropping east to Possum Hut. The last 100m of descent are very steep and slippery. The historic Possum Hut is rundown and probably no longer suited for overnight stays. There is no camping at the hut, but good flats exist 500m east between the main river forks.