Distance: 2.3 km (3.0 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 347m to 1117m. Gain: 770m. Loss: 0m . Gradient: 20 deg (Moderate-hard)
Skills: Alpine weather (2/7) - Streams (2/6)

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

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

Easy-moderate (difficulty: 2/5)
Tussock / river-gravel / open bush / cut track

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

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

Unknown (difficulty: 0/7)
Not specified

The Kellys Creek bridge is 6km towards Greymouth from the Otira Hotel along the SH73 Arthurs Pass road.
From the Kellys Creek bridge on SH73 (Arthur’s Pass road), the track runs 400m up the creek, before a fork is reached. The left fork continues up the creek towards Hunt Saddle and Hunts Creek Hut. Turn right however, and ascend steeply for 500 vertical meters though mature bush until it gives out to scrub. The track, though steep, is cut and well maintained (2007). On leaving the bush, the gradient flattens – and the track sidles, climbing a further 100m through thick scrub before reaching the valley’s rim and the beginning of the tussock tops. Carroll’s Hut is a further 400m (100m ascent) across the tussock – the route is poled.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

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