Distance: 5.0 km (4.0 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 136m to 1226m. Gain: 1091m. Loss: 70m . Gradient: 13 deg (Moderate-hard)
Skills: Occasional scrambles (3/7) Winter - Snow/ice underfoot (2/7)

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

Moderate-hard (difficulty: 4/5)
Continuous moderate climbs

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

Occasional scrambles (difficulty: 3/7)
Tramp with some scrambles and exposure to falls

None (difficulty: 1/6)
No unbridged river crossings

Snow/ice underfoot (difficulty: 2/7)
Snow/ice likely on track

A volunteer-maintained track climbs the spur to Healey creek Hut from the Mikonui starting 1km up the Mikonui River from Mikonui Flats Hut.

The track is marked from the bushedge, but it is necessary to watch out for premolar markers marking the track start when travelling up the Mikonui flats.

The track is cut/marked, climbing steeply to 600m before attaining the ridgeline and beginning a more gentle ascent to the bushedge at 1200m. One brief steep scramble up a well protected gravel chute is required at around 1100m, but otherwise the track is straight forward.

From the scrubline at 1300 a more sparsely poled route drops gently onto terraces east of the spur where Healey creek Hut is visible some 100m below. This section could be tricky in poor visibility.

2-4 hrs

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

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