Distance: 1.9 km (1.0 DOC hours) - Benched track - Easy terrain
Altitude: 236m to 360m. Gain: 103m. Loss: 216m . Gradient: 10 deg (Flat)
Skills:

Benched track (3/9)
Benched, maintained, marked tramping track or pack-track

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

Flat (difficulty: 1/5)
Flat

Easy (difficulty: 1/5)
Grass / prepared surface

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

None (difficulty: 1/6)
No unbridged river crossings

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

From the junction of logging tracks, the old roadbed continues downriver, dropping gently as it sidles the valleyside. Soon after 2 old slips have partially blocked the road, stopping anything larger than a quad from getting through. Beyond the track becomes narrower and more pleasant without the wheel ruts.

At the corner above the Snowy / Waiotauru confluence is a clearing where the roadbed swing sharply right and starts to head up the Snowy. The main track leaves the roadbed here, and DOC triangles here on the left-hand side mark the start of the tramping track which continues down the Waiotauru valley.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

An old roadbed sidles, gently climbing the valleyside southwest from the Snowy confluence towards Waiotauru Hut. Easy going on foot, and ok on mountainbikes. A couple of slips stop anything bigger than a quad getting down here. On the spur after the 3rd creek crossing an obvious junction is reached with another old road dropping steeply down from the tops above.