Distance: 9.9 km (4.0 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy terrain
Altitude: 130m to 282m. Gain: 261m. Loss: 286m . Gradient: 3 deg (Moderate)
Skills:

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 (difficulty: 1/5)
Grass / prepared surface

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

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

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

From the southern carpark, the Lake Kaniere Track climbs in gentle zigzags – gravel surfaces for bikes – sidles the northern face of Mt Upright to a wooden viewing platform. The climb is rewarded by our first look at Lake Kaniere: mirror flat reflecting low hills to the north, tranquil in it’s green bush-covered basin.

The track descends to the lakeshore – no sign remaining of Lawyer’s Delight Hut. More a sidle track than lakeshore track we climb and fall over spurs and bluffs - occasional glimpses of the water through trees. Two small streams form flat gravel fans out into the lake and provide the only flat spots for those wishing to pitch a small tent.

North of the second stream fan, the track finally gives up it’s sidling, runs flat and easy along the lake shore to the roadend at Sunny Bight. The picnic area and toilets are 300m beynod.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From the picnic area at Sunny Bight, the road continues another 300m and ends at a carpark. The track from here is a rough mountainbike track - benched but not smooth. The track follows the lakeshore for 3km to Kent Creek, before starting to climb and drop, over spurs, sidling the valleyside. The two small gravel fans at Kent Creek and Hooker Creek provide the only viable camping spots we saw.

South of Hooker, the climbs and descents continue to Lawyers Delight Beach. From here the track climbs steadily gaining about 150m to a viewing platform below Mt Upright with views down the lake. 1.5km of sidling and zig-zag descent takes you to the carpark on Dorothy Falls Road.