Distance: 4.3 km (3.0 DOC hours) - Unmarked route, clear - Moderate terrain
Altitude: 538m to 689m. Gain: 193m. Loss: 79m . Gradient: 4 deg (Moderate)
Skills: - Occasional rivers (3/6) Winter - Snow/ice underfoot (2/7)

Unmarked route, clear (7/9)
Unmarked route, follows obvious geography (river, spur, trail, etc)

Primary, unmapped (2/5)
Route not on maps, but is principal access to hut or along range / catchment

Moderate (difficulty: 3/5)
Occasional moderate climbs

Moderate (difficulty: 3/5)
Low scrub in open or bush / river rocks

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

Occasional rivers (difficulty: 3/6)
Occasional rivers - impassible after heavy rain

Snow/ice underfoot (difficulty: 2/7)
Snow/ice likely on track

Above Red Stream, the Glenrae continues broad and open for 1.5km with easy travel on river flats - crossing as required. Above that it becomes tight, gorged and bushy. Travel is in the riverbed on wet rounded river rocks. Crossings were ankle to knee deep in average midwinter flows.

The track to Glenrae Biv starts 100m below the forks, marked with triangles. The track climbs steeply over the spur and then sidles down into flats in the western fork of the valley. The biv is on the true right, 100m upstream of the bottom of the flats - well upriver of where the 2009 topomap shows it.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

Follow flats down from the biv - picking up the track as it makes a sidling climb of a slip face on the TR 50m above the bottom of the flats. The track crosses the small spur and drops steeply to the river 100m below the forks.

The first 4m or so downstream is tight, gorged and bushy. Travel is in the riverbed on wet rounded river rocks. For the final 1.5km to the Red Stream forks the valley opens to wide clear flats, and travel is on the flats, crossing as required. Crossings were ankle to knee deep in average midwinter flows.

1.5-3 hrs