Distance: 2.9 km (1.0 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy terrain
Altitude: 609m to 636m. Gain: 40m. Loss: 13m . Gradient: 1 deg (Flat)
Skills:

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

Flat (difficulty: 1/5)
Flat

Easy (difficulty: 1/5)
Grass / prepared surface

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

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

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

A sidle track heads upriver from Monument Hut, staying low on the valleyside and avoiding crossing the river outside the hut. This drops to the flats after around 800m and you are left to wander your way up the open flats on the true left. A DOC triangle 200m before the confluence marks the start of the next high-water track to the Huxley swingbridge, or you can ford the river in normal/low conditions.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From the Huxley/Dobson confluence, the route is unmarked and follows the valley flats downstream, hugging the western flank of the valley. After 2km, a DOC triangle on the bushedge marks the start of a sidle track which sidles low on the western face avoiding the need for a river crossing at the hut.