Distance: 9.9 km (2.5 DOC hours) - Unmarked route, hard - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 637m to 758m. Gain: 205m. Loss: 123m . Gradient: 2 deg (Flat)
Skills: - Streams (2/6)

Unmarked route, hard (8/9)
Unmarked route, no clear geographic features to follow

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

Streams (difficulty: 2/6)
Small streams, danger only in extreme weather

Unknown (difficulty: 0/7)
Not specified

It is possible, with a good gps, to travel from Steyning Hut to Magdalen Hut via legal road corridors (i.e. sticking to crown land). This involves ignoring the formed 4WD track and following the legal roadline. The attached GPS file is my route (not the centreline of the legal road) and was walked by following a GPS with the WAMS layer loaded.

It would be nice if this legal road could be surveyed and poled for all to use without the need to hassle Glenhope Station for access along their private track.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

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