Distance: 1.1 km (0.3 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 940m to 989m. Gain: 17m. Loss: 66m . Gradient: 4 deg (Flat)
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

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

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

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

From the track junction another easy km remains to the hut. Just as I’m beginning to wonder where the hut is, the tall beech ends abruptly and 3m high manuka takes its place – low dense scrub, rattling in the increasing wind. The beech forest makes a last, brief rally – another 100m-wide band – then stops permanently at a large clearing beyond which low scrubby manuka extends to the horizon. Middle Hill Hut.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From Middle Hill Hut the Camp Spur track heads WSW through a mixture of beech and manuka. An easy flat walk takes you 1km over the flats to the start of camp spur where a signposted track junction marks the turnoff to Kaweka Flats Biv and Makahu Saddle to the south.