Distance: 11.7 km (3.5 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 853m to 1136m. Gain: 319m. Loss: 296m . Gradient: 3 deg (Moderate)
Skills: - 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 (difficulty: 3/5)
Occasional moderate climbs

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

Unknown (difficulty: 0/7)
Not specified

The St James walkway continues up river flats from Rokeby Hut until it reaches the main fork at he head of the valley. Shortly before the forks the cut/marked track enters the bush and begins a sidling climb to Anne Saddle. The climb is gentle-moderate on a broad track used by both trampers and horses.

After a brief descent through beech forest the track enters the clear flats of the Anne River and follows the southern/eastern bank downriver. A swingbridge takes the track to the western bank just as the bushy lower valley is reached. The former site of Anne River (cullers) hut is on flats 0.5km up from the Anne/Henry Forks, where a bridge crosses the Anne River back to the eastern bank.

2.5-4 hrs

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From the bridge over the Anne River at the former hut site, a cut / marked track runs up the western bank of the Anne River through clearings and beech forest. Emerging into open valley flats in the upper Anne, the track crosses back to the eastern bank via a bridge and follows that bank to the valley head, swinging west. A cut marked track climbs easily through beech forest over the low Anne Saddle before making a sidling descent to the Boyle valley floor. A poled route leads down open river flats in the Boyle. Rokeby Hut is reached after 4km of river flats. Rokeby Hut is on the bushedge east of the track just before the bridge over Boyle Stream and is signposted.

2.5-4 hrs