Distance: 12.1 km (4.0 DOC hours) - Benched track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 832m to 1020m. Gain: 402m. Loss: 590m . Gradient: 5 deg (Gentle)
Skills: - Streams (2/6)

Benched track (3/9)
Benched, maintained, marked tramping track or pack-track

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

Unknown (difficulty: 0/7)
Not specified

A fully maintained and popular track. Along the way is Tent Camp, a fully restored historic camp which could sleep 3 or 4 at a squeeze. Plenty of grassy camping as well. Further along (and about half way to Trilobite Hut) is another restored historic establishment - Chaffey Hut - again with 3 bunks and good camping on a bend in the Cobb River.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

A fully maintained and popular track.

About half way to Cobb Hut is the restored historic Chaffey Hut - 3 bunks and good camping on a bend in the Cobb River. Further along is Tent Camp, a fully restored historic camp which could sleep 3 or 4 at a squeeze. Plenty of grassy camping as well. All that remains is a short (hour) rising to historic Cobb Hut with reflections of the spartan days of early hydro schemes.