Distance: 3.5 km (1.5 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 659m to 754m. Gain: 80m. Loss: 106m . 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

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

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

A poled / marked track runs down the Dingle Valley from Ben Avon, sidling low near the river through beech forest. After 3km the creek crosses a moderate side creek (knee deep) and climbs a spur onto terraces 100m above the river. Cotters Hut is at the rear of this terrace.

1-1.5 hrs

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From Cotters Hut a poled/marked track descends west down a spur to the river. The side-creek is crossed (ankle-knee deep) before the track sidles low through beech forest up the Dingle Valley to reach flats 3km upstream. Ben Avon Hut is not on the track - after crossing the next sidecreek upstream, follow the bushedge east for 100. - the hut is tucked in the bush a the rear of flats.

1-1.5hrs