Distance: 5.3 km (3.0 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Moderate terrain
Altitude: 417m to 573m. Gain: 51m. Loss: 207m . Gradient: 3 deg (Gentle)
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

Gentle (difficulty: 2/5)
Gentle slopes

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

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 track runs down the south side of the Crooked between Top Crooked Hut and Jacko Flat Hut. The track is maintained by DOC and was cut in 2015 - still good going in 2018. Initially the track is a mixture of cut track on scrubby flats and travel on the shingle riverbed. Lower down it climbs and sidles the valleyside to Jacko Flat.

2-3 hrs

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

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