Distance: 5.2 km (3.0 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 848m to 1269m. Gain: 293m. Loss: 421m . Gradient: 8 deg
Skills: - Occasional rivers (3/6)

Tramping track (4/9)
Cut, marked tramping track: natural, rough ground surface

Secondary, mapped (3/5)
Formal route, on maps, an alternative recognised access to hut or along range / catchment

Unknown (difficulty: 0/5)
Not specified

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

Unknown (difficulty: 0/7)
Not specified

No description

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

Travel up the Rakaia river crossing Reischek Stream. Just after the stream from Meins Knob the rough Glenfalloch Route is marked. Follow this steeply up to the saddle south of Meins Knob. The route is sparsely marked (at least in 2011) after the saddle but is followable to the riverbed and then easy travel to Lyell Hut.