Distance: 7.4 km (4.0 DOC hours) - Unmarked route, clear - Moderate terrain
Altitude: 714m to 874m. Gain: 360m. Loss: 363m . Gradient: 6 deg (Moderate-hard)
Skills: - Prolonged rivers (4/6)

Unmarked route, clear (7/9)
Unmarked route, follows obvious geography (river, spur, trail, etc)

minor (5/5)
A viable route, not widely used

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

Moderate (difficulty: 3/5)
Low scrub in open or bush / river rocks

Unknown (difficulty: 0/7)
Not specified

Prolonged rivers (difficulty: 4/6)
Frequent river travel - impassible after rain, risk of getting trapped

Unknown (difficulty: 0/7)
Not specified

Travel from Bob’s hut was reasonably straight forward, generally descending, but with undulations. I reached the two-wire bridge by 4pm (Figure 7a) and made my way up the East Matakitaki on a reasonably straight forward track, reaching the East Matakitaki Hut by 6:30pm. The East Matakitaki Hut is lovely forest service original hut, in a beautiful setting. Since my last visit it had received a new red roof. Other than that, it was the same comfortable hut, with our entry from two years ago just a few pages back.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

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