Distance: 6.5 km (2.0 DOC hours) - Unmaintained track - Moderate terrain
Altitude: 676m to 860m. Gain: 482m. Loss: 301m . Gradient: 7 deg (Gentle)
Skills: - Streams (2/6)

Unmaintained track (5/9)
Former track, overgrown - markers / ground trail still followable

Primary, unmapped (2/5)
Route not on maps, but is 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

Note that DOC classify this areas a 'complex' avalanche terrain.

An unmaintained cattle track runs up the south/west/true right bank on Minaret Burn from Boil The Billy Hut to the top forks. Note that the east/north/true left of the creek is private land.

From Boil the Billy Hut a well trodden but overgrowing cattle track sidles upriver through patchy scrub, generally 20m above the river but later climbing to faces 60-or-so meters above. The track ends after 2km at broad flats of low grass which continue a further 6km to the scrubline at the top forks.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

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