Distance: 2.6 km (0.8 DOC hours) - Unmaintained track - Moderate terrain
Altitude: 557m to 589m. Gain: 59m. Loss: 32m . Gradient: 2 deg (Gentle)
Skills: - Occasional rivers (3/6)

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

Gentle (difficulty: 2/5)
Gentle slopes

Moderate (difficulty: 3/5)
Low scrub in open or bush / river rocks

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

An old 4wd track climbs from flats at the forks of Waiau and Edwards passing The Narrows on the western bank. The track intersects the new, maintained Glenhope Station access track just north of Steyning Stream, 60m above the river.

Tin Jug Hut is private, locked and on the opposite (station-owned) bank of the Steyning.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From the track junction on terraces north of Steyning Stream, and old 4wd track sidles north past The Narrows before dropping to the Waiau. A crossing here to the east bank is possible in normal flows, givign access to The Terrace and the St James Cycleway.