Distance: 2.1 km (1.0 DOC hours) - Benched track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 252m to 480m. Gain: 244m. Loss: 16m . Gradient: 7 deg (Gentle)
Skills: - Occasional rivers (3/6)

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

Occasional rivers (difficulty: 3/6)
Occasional rivers - impassible after heavy rain

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

From the easternmost of the two Hacket Junctions, the track to Browning Hut head upriver, soon crossing to the northern bank (creek must be forded, ankle deep but could flood). An old benched track runs along the northern valleyside, but after 100m it has slipped away and you must either drop to the riverbed for 200m (4 crossing required), or climb a high, rough bypass route.

After passing the slipped section, the benched, cut, marked track returns to sidle the northern valleyside. Crossing the north fork of the creek, the track starts to climb steadily. A further 1.5km steady climb takes you to Browning Hut, in a large clearing on the northern form of Browning Stream.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From Browning Hut, a cut, marked, benched track heads west, dropping steadily to the forks in the Browning Creek. From here it crosses and sidles the northern face. A 200m section has slipped away and you must either drop to the riverbed for 200m (4 crossing required), or climb a high, rough bypass route.

After the slipped section the benched track returns on the northern face for 100m, before zigzagging back down to the river (ignoring an old disused benched ytrack continuing straight on). Cross the creek (ankle deep normally but can flood) and head 50 down the northern bank to where a signpost marks the junction of the pack-track to HAcket Hut and the route onwards down the Browning,