Distance: 10.6 km (7.5 DOC hours) - Unmarked route, clear - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 760m to 1419m. Gain: 58m. Loss: 700m . Gradient: 4 deg (Gentle)
Skills: - Occasional rivers (3/6)

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

Primary, unmapped (2/5)
Route not on maps, but is 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

Unknown (difficulty: 0/7)
Not specified

No description

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

Note: this route travels via the Jollie riverbed and requires numerous crossings of various braids. The route may be impassable after rain.

After leaving Green Point Hut, head north and descend via a boot path to the riverbed. Follow the river north past First Waterfall Stream (about 2km from the hut). Here the valley becomes slightly steeper but wider, and the river is no longer constricted by steep embankments. From this point, it is a long walk upriver on scrubby gravel flats. Long-derelict Littles Hut had been removed as of February, 2026.

Jollie Saddle had been my original objective but as I grew nearer, I decided the head of the valley was holding too much snow and ice, so I made an impromptu detour up a side stream to climb to a nameless col in the Gamack Range that looked navigable on topo. Thankfully, this proved to be a straightforward, non-technical route, although it is a long, hot plod on scree, especially in mid-summer. At the Gamack range crest, Glenmore Station land begins and prior permission should be sought. The western side of the range, however, is public conservation land. I camped in the lower reaches of the stream on the approach.

At the confluence of the Jollie and the nameless stream just south of Mt. William Grant, about 9.5km upriver of Green Point Hut, cross the stream and go up the obvious tussock-covered spur on the TR. At about the 1400m contour line, vegetation turns to rock, and in mid-summer the stream disappears into the valley floor. Camping is possible here on small grassy flats near the stream. However, if you continue upstream, the stream does reappear a few km further along, and there looked to be possibly better camping on some flattish rocky and occasionally mossy/grassy terraces nearby.