Distance: 3.2 km (1.5 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 521m to 623m. Gain: 140m. Loss: 40m . Gradient: 3 deg (Gentle)
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

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

Streams (difficulty: 2/6)
Small streams, danger only in extreme weather

Unknown (difficulty: 0/7)
Not specified

No description

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

A good quality well marked (if slightly overgrown) track fords the Aparima River then heads down valley above the true left side. The large swamp shown on the map is reached in about an hour where the marked track skirts around the swamps edge, out from the trees. Markers can be hard to see here, but just follow the foot prints through the mud. The track junction is located under the trees where there is a large DOC sign marking the turn off to Spence Hut.