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DOC Land
Altitude: 641m to 1814m. Gain: 3440m. Loss: 2787m . Gradient: 10 deg (Moderate-hard)
Skills: Alpine weather (2/7) - Occasional rivers (3/6) Winter - Snow/ice underfoot (2/7)
Warning: this route segment has not been experienced by the author
Altitude: 793m to 1814m. Gain: 1021m. Loss: 0m . Gradient: 21 deg
Skills:
Day 1, Scotts Track to Avalanche Peak
Avalanche Peak Summit
Warning: this route segment has not been experienced by the author
Altitude: 1024m to 1805m. Gain: 234m. Loss: 1015m . Gradient: 16 deg
Skills:
Skirt below ridgeline, enter scree descent after pt1658
Standard Hut
Warning: this route segment has not been experienced by the author
Altitude: 675m to 1505m. Gain: 830m. Loss: 608m . Gradient: 6 deg
Skills:
No description
Altitude: 736m to 1542m. Gain: 995m. Loss: 499m . Gradient: 16 deg (Moderate-hard)
Skills: Alpine weather (2/7) Winter - Snow/ice underfoot (2/7)
This route climbs the spur on the east side of Jordan Stream to reach pt1545 before dropping along the ridgeline to Bealey Spur Hut.
Start at the bushedge on the east side of Jordan Stream where it meets the Waimakariri flats. A blue triangle on a tree marks the start. Good deer trains follow the defined spur through open beech forest. At about the 1000m contour, the spur becomes ill-defined and the game trails fragment, just as the undergrowth becomes thick with young beech. Continues due south up the face by whatever route seems easiest, bushbashing to about to 1100m contour, where you meet the now-well-defined spur swinging briefly east.
From here, good game trails resume climbing to the bushline at 1400m. A short 150m climb up rock & lichen / short tussock follows the remainder of the spur to the summit.
A well used, but unmarked trail follows the ridgeline east over pt1545 and drops to the Bealey Spur Hut. The hut lies at the east end of a large clearing, 500m beyond the initial bushedge.
Altitude: 641m to 1233m. Gain: 7m. Loss: 599m . Gradient: 6 deg (Gentle)
Skills:
A well travelled, well marked track runs down the spur from Bealey Hut. Expect at least half a dozen day-trip parties a day on fine weekends. Erosion has become a problem and several sections are boardwalked.
The track ends at a toilet at the end of the residential street in Bealey Spur township. Parking is at the base of the hill 200m below, and the hotel is 200m west of that along the highway,
Parking for the Bealey Spur track is off the main road immediately west of the residential street leading into Bealey Spur township. You can drive 200m up this street to the start of the track to drop-off / pick-up walkers, but parking is only permitted at the bottom of the hill.
For those needing a feed or drink, the Bealey Hotel is 200m west along the state highway.
Altitude: 737m to 1037m. Gain: 353m. Loss: 66m . Gradient: 5 deg (Gentle)
Skills: - Occasional rivers (3/6)
Head north up the Crow River valley through a small pocket of bush before emerging out onto a large gravel fan on the true left above the river. Look for the occasional orange-topped waratah & numerous rock cairns across this fan & further on up the valley. Cross to the true right as the lower part of the valley begins to narrow. Remain on the true right of the valley until reaching the Crow Hut. Before reaching the hut, the track on the true right, alternates between the river bed, short sections of track in the bush & trails along river terraces all the mean while climbing slowly & crossing small streams/ creeks. At one point the track crosses a very large alluvial slip containing both fine & large scree. Not long after this, the track climbs away from the river for a short time, as it climbs around a smallish gorge & into the upper Crow Valley.
The track emerges, still on the true right, onto a river terrace in the upper Crow Valley & the sky line is dominated by the south face of Mt Rolleston. The track crosses a few more small streams away from the river & it is marked, at times, indistinct rock cairns.. Shortly, thereafter, the track emerges onto a river terrace & Crow Hut can be seen a few hundred metres away on a river terrace on the true right of Crow River.