Distance: 4.7 km (2.0 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 756m to 919m. Gain: 271m. Loss: 403m . Gradient: 8 deg (Gentle)
Skills: - Streams (2/6)

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

Gentle (difficulty: 2/5)
Gentle slopes

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

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

From the turnoff, the Kaweka Biv track starts by dropping 100m to Kaiarahi Creek: a good cot, marked zigzag track through beech forest down to the creek and back up again. Heading SW the track crosses a couple more small creeks - nothing more than a 40m descent, alternating between pine, manuka and beech forest. The map shows a direct track across the north fork of the Tutaekuri, but this has been closed and the only track on the ground detours 500m upriver to the former Kaweka Biv site below Cooks Horn Basin. Here it crosses the 1st creek, then the small ridge, and descends the 2nd creek back to the original line of the track. Nothing like what is shown on the map.

Back on the original track, a short, easy 60m climb follows to the base of The Rogue Spur, where a signpost marks the junction with The Rogue track.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From The Rogue track junction the track drops to the next creek north, which it follows upriver some 700m, then cuts NE over a small spur to the next creek and the site of the former Kaweka Biv (toilet and camping spots remain). The track then returns downriver 500m to end up 100m from where it started. Daft, and not shown on the map.

From here on the map is accurate, the track sidling east, crossing a couple of small streams - descents / ascents of no more than 40m. Finally, 800m from the Mackintosh Track junction, it drops 100m to Kaiarahi Creek, and climbs the far side. A good cut track through beech, pines and manuka throughout its length.