Distance: 0.8 km (0.5 DOC hours) - Benched track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 250m to 294m. Gain: 51m. Loss: 49m . Gradient: 7 deg (Gentle)
Skills: - Streams (2/6)

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

Streams (difficulty: 2/6)
Small streams, danger only in extreme weather

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

An old mining pack-track heads over a low saddle east of Hacket Hut to the Browning. Follow the cut, benched, marked track down the eastern bank of the Hacket Creek from the hut, soon swinging east up a side creek and zigzagging to a saddle. The track drops in further zigzags to the Browning Stream, where a signposted track junction on the southern bank (not northern as shown on maps) marks the junction with the track up to Browning,

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From the signposted track junction, the old pack-track to hacket zigzags up the southern face of the Browning to a low saddle, before zigzagging east down the far side to the Hacket, just north of Hacket Hut. The track is benched and well marked.