Distance: 3.5 km (1.3 DOC hours) - Benched track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 121m to 401m. Gain: 0m. Loss: 280m . Gradient: 5 deg (Gentle)
Skills:

Benched track (3/9)
Benched, maintained, marked tramping track or pack-track

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

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

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

From the 2nd saddle at pt515 the former roadbed sidles Docharty Creek, finding large flats above Blowfly Hut. The track eventually looses the roadbed before reaching the hut, and becomes a marked tramping track for the last few hundred meters.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

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