Distance: 2.8 km (2.0 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 496m to 985m. Gain: 510m. Loss: 21m . Gradient: 11 deg (Moderate-hard)
Skills:

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-hard (difficulty: 4/5)
Continuous moderate climbs

Easy-moderate (difficulty: 2/5)
Tussock / river-gravel / open bush / cut track

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

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

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

Heading upstream from Te Puia Hut, the track soon reaches a swingbridge where a signposted track turns south to Makino Hut. The track is a basic tramping track and is steep and crosses clay-pan faces which will be slippery after rain. It is a steep 500m climb in 1.5km to the junction with the Makino Hut track, at the top of the face. The hut is 500m west along the track from the junction on the boundary between the shaded beech forest of the tops and the hot exposed manuka scrub to the west..

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

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