Distance: 5.6 km (4.0 DOC hours) - Unmarked route, clear - Moderate terrain
Altitude: 736m to 1542m. Gain: 995m. Loss: 499m . Gradient: 16 deg (Moderate-hard)
Skills: Alpine weather (2/7) Winter - Snow/ice underfoot (2/7)

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

Secondary, unmapped (4/5)
Route not on maps, an alternative recognised access to hut or along range / catchment

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

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

Alpine weather (difficulty: 2/7)
Tramp on open tops, exposed to alpine weather

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

Snow/ice underfoot (difficulty: 2/7)
Snow/ice likely on track

This route climbs the spur on the east side of Jordan Stream to reach pt1545 before dropping along the ridgeline to Bealey Spur Hut.

Start at the bushedge on the east side of Jordan Stream where it meets the Waimakariri flats. A blue triangle on a tree marks the start. Good deer trains follow the defined spur through open beech forest. At about the 1000m contour, the spur becomes ill-defined and the game trails fragment, just as the undergrowth becomes thick with young beech. Continues due south up the face by whatever route seems easiest, bushbashing to about to 1100m contour, where you meet the now-well-defined spur swinging briefly east.

From here, good game trails resume climbing to the bushline at 1400m. A short 150m climb up rock & lichen / short tussock follows the remainder of the spur to the summit.

A well used, but unmarked trail follows the ridgeline east over pt1545 and drops to the Bealey Spur Hut. The hut lies at the east end of a large clearing, 500m beyond the initial bushedge.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

Climb the ridge west of Bealey Spur Hut on a well defined but unmarked track, passing over pt1545. Where the ridge swings sharply SW, head just west of north, picking up the defined spur that tops the eastern face of Jordan stream, dropping towards the confluence of the Jordan and Waimakariri. Below the bushedge at 1400m the spur continues well defined with good game trails, hugging the top of the Jordan face.

At 1100m, the spur swings due west. Follow it at least 100m to pass the head of a stream which starts below, before dropping north through scrubby beech with few game trails. At about the 1000m contour the scrub passes and the spur becomes better defined again, and you can follow good game trails through open beech to the confluence. The tramping track up/down the Waimakariri is 150m beyond on the flats, marked with poles.