Distance: 0.9 km (0.5 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 401m to 428m. Gain: 16m. Loss: 42m . Gradient: 4 deg (Flat)
Skills: - Occasional rivers (3/6)

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

Flat (difficulty: 1/5)
Flat

Easy-moderate (difficulty: 2/5)
Tussock / river-gravel / open bush / cut track

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

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

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

Below the Moerangi track turnoff, the route down the Mangamate is replaced by a rough track which generally sidles low on the valleysides or on the riverbed. Frequent river crossings are required, but unlike the route upstream, extended travel in the river is no longer necessary,

The river is knee deep in normal flows and 3-5m wide, and could become impassible after heavy rain.

The track ends on the western side of the bridge which carries the Central Whirinaki cycleway over Mangamate Stream, and is marked by a signpost.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

The start of the track up the Mangamate is on the western side of the bridge which carries the Central Whirinaki cycleway over Mangamate Stream, and is marked by a signpost. A rough track generally sidles low on the valleysides or on the riverbed. Frequent river crossings are required, but unlike the route further upstream, extended travel in the river is not necessary downstream of the Moerangi turnoff.

After about 1km, at a point where the track is on small flats on the eastern bank of the stream, a small 'Track' sign pointing back downriver (the way we've come) marks the junction with the Moerangi Hut track.