Distance: 4.3 km (2.0 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 515m to 601m. Gain: 87m. Loss: 26m . Gradient: 2 deg (Flat)
Skills: - Prolonged rivers (4/6)

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

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

Prolonged rivers (difficulty: 4/6)
Frequent river travel - impassible after rain, risk of getting trapped

Unknown (difficulty: 0/7)
Not specified

From Becketts Hut return to the Waterloo Burn and follow this upriver. The marked track shown on the map does not exist, so instead simply follow the river which is straight forward travel.

AT about the 600m contour, if you climb out of the river bed you should spot markers poles crossing the valley floor from the south, the Te Ararora trail, so link up with these.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

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