Mullins Creek

An old, intermittently maintained (by volunteers) track leads up to Mullins Hut from the Toaroha
Valley. Mullins Creek enters the Toaroha about an hour up from Cedar Flat as a spectacular waterfall.
Cross the bouldery river, okay in ordinary flow, and find the track start 50 metres downstream from
the Mullins junction and about 30 metres up a small side creek on the true right of the creek. The
track climbs and sidles into a side creek, goes up the creek for 20 metres, and then climbs out on the
true right to a small scrubby ridge. Beyond, it sidles into a creek, goes up that for 50 metres, and then
climbs out on the true right and follows a ridge over a knoll into Mullins Basin.
The Diedrichs Range is accessible up slopes to the north-west of Mullins Hut, between two small
creeks where scrub is minimal. Slopes above lead to the range near the basin saddle (where there is a cairn) between Pts 1610 and 1780 metres. To descend from Mt Ross to Mullins Hut, drop into the
basin west of Pt 1251 metres and pick up tape in a creek at about J34 571989 / BV19 471 373 to avoid
thick scrub on the spur.