Distance: 1.9 km (2.0 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 217m to 719m. Gain: 35m. Loss: 508m . Gradient: 17 deg (Moderate-hard)
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

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

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

The descent to Washpool is as steep as the ascent from Pararaki – increasingly so as you lose altitude. I lost the track 50m above the creek, and dropped to the river at a fork 100m up from Washpool Hut. The track may exit closer, if you can follow it. Downriver from the fork a sign on the true right points to Washpool Hut. The hut is 60m above the creek up a good track.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

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