Distance: 4.3 km (2.0 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 492m to 655m. Gain: 131m. Loss: 172m . Gradient: 4 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

From Coal Creek climb the hill and follow the TA through the forest past Pt580 and on down to the next tussocky section. After brief travel through another bush section a stream is crossed and tussock and the bush edge is followed down to the junction with the Aparima River track.

If you are heading up the Aparima River you can actually save a little bit of time by leaving the track at about CE09 088 282 and heading up the tussocky valley to the southwest to enter the trees and travel through the low saddle southeast of Pt571. Head southwest on the western side of the saddle (the eastern side is swampy) until you hit the Aparima River track.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

Head north from the track junction as the track skirts around a mixture of tussocky farm land belonging to Waterloo Burn Station and some bush, before heading into the trees past Pt 580. Descend down the other side to reach Coal Creek. The TA continues northwards here up the western side of the valley or you can leave the track behind to cross over the farmland to Becketts Hut.