• pmcke Thanks for your useful comments. Encouraged by the success of the Waihua-Apiti trip I might have a look up the Ohutu sometime this summer. I have been up as far as the track to Duckville and it is still a biggish stream then so I don't imagine too much problem getting up further. The key will be getting from one catchment to the other. Hopefully it is a saddle route but the drop to the east looks steeper on the map and possibly bluffed. I will keep the 847 peak option in mind.
  29 June 2009
• surfa Hi, I have been upstream, but not over into the Ohutu. From memory, the Whaingatikitiki Stream is good to travel in the lower reaches. I have been up the left fork of that stream, and climbed up over the 642 and back down to the hut. The climb out of the creek was steep... With a pack, I think I'd try a route from the 847 peak approx 2kms NW of the hut. This is not a bad ridge to travel up from the main creek, but takes some time (probably 1.5-2 hours). I'm not sure what the going is like west of that peak, obviously a saddle to go through to hit the main devide between the catchments. I'd be interested to hear if you do this walk!
  29 June 2009
• pmcke Thanks for posting this photo. Looks like a cool hut and reminds me that I really want to visit it. Have you been upstream from this hut and crossed into the Ohutu. I have heard second hand of someone who did it and wonder what it is like and how long it took.
  24 March 2009

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