Distance: 3.6 km (2.0 DOC hours) - Unmaintained track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 616m to 681m. Gain: 12m. Loss: 75m . Gradient: 1 deg (Flat)
Skills: - Streams (2/6)

Unmaintained track (5/9)
Former track, overgrown - markers / ground trail still followable

Primary, mapped (1/5)
Formal route, on maps, principal access to hut or along range / catchment

Flat (difficulty: 1/5)
Flat

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

None (difficulty: 1/7)
No alpine skills required

Note that the area is classified as 'Complex' avalanche terrain by DOC - though no obvious risk areas were noted on the track by myself downstream of Boil the Billy.

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Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

An unmaintained track runs up the south bank of Minaret Burn from Slip Creek Hut to Boil the Billy Creek / Hut. About half way it crosses Starvation Creek (ankle-knee deep in normal flows), which gives access to Mt Alta.