15/10/2025. South Waikouaiti River Track. Grade 4. Trampers Leaders: Ross Davies, Neil Hodgkin.
Wednesday’s tramp was an alphabet.
On – a beautiful calm day everyone(fourteen) great hikers (including Julie Katrina) literally meandered near our pleasant, quiet, rugged, surroundings. Terrain Uphill? Very! Waikouaiti xercising yesterday. 
We parked on Double Hill Road and walked on the Green Ridge track until we met the Eucalypt Spur sign.
Down we went which many of us had not done before.
It was then a nice walk along the South Waikouaiti River until we reached the bottom of the Rosella Track, completed in three hours which included stops and morning tea.
We stopped here and assessed times, people’s appointments etc and decided to have lunch here and then head back, although Ross’s original intentions were to carry on to the Sculpture Rocks at the bottom of the climb to the Philip Cox Hut.
We returned the same way until we reached the bottom of the Hunters’ Access track which took us back to the road. The climb was not as bad as many thought.
The time away from vehicles was 5.5 hours, distance 13kms, elevation gain 490 metres.
And just to show you I know my alphabet, do you do this every Wednesday morning before a tramp?
your xercising Wednesday’s very useful. Tramp – stretch, run quietly, push on Neil, make lunch, kitchen, juice, I had grape fruit, eggs, drinks, cereal, bread, aaaarrrrrrgh!!!!
Neil
Link to background information and earlier tramps and hikes in the same area.