Distance: 2.1 km (2.0 DOC hours) - Unmarked route, clear - Moderate-hard terrain
Altitude: 613m to 735m. Gain: 161m. Loss: 39m . Gradient: 6 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

Moderate-hard (difficulty: 4/5)
Tall, walkable scrub / large rocks, occasional waterfalls or gorges in rivers

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

Stony Stream is narrow, tight and very scrubby with broom growing right to the water's edge. Progress in in the river all the way apart from occasional dry channels which make things briefly easier but it is a very slow trip. When you reach the 2m waterfall 400m short of the biv, enter a grove of beech forest on the true left where an obvious animal trail leads up onto the edge of a terrace. Travel along the edge of the terrace until dense growth of broom forces you to head at a 90 degree angle across the terrace to the highest point of a soggy fan. Here you will meet up with a 6ft wide track through the broom which takes you a further 200m to Stony Stream Biv. If you stay in the stream beyond the 2m waterfall the turnoff out of the creek is marked by a billy-lid nailed to a tree accompanied by pink cruise tape. The biv is not visible from the stream.

1-2 hrs

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

At present travel from Stony Stream Biv downriver is via the stream bed only. A start has been made on a cut track through flat behind the hut but (2019) this ends in thick scrub after 400m.

From the biv, follow this track to its highest point then cut across to the edge of the terrace where an animal trail is eventually encountered. Follow this down off the terrace to a grove of beech trees and drop to the stream and follow it down to the fork with the Edwards . Apart from an occasional dry flood channel travel is in the stream only with banks being tight and scrubby. Expect slow progress.

1-2 hrs