Waitaha Road to Mt Allen via the Robinson Slip

Access is from Waitaha Road. The road shown on the topomap is on private property beyond the
houses at I34 257905 / BV17 157 289. Permission is required to cross private land in this area ( Jody and
Andrew Shaw, phone 03 755 4900). Public vehicle access is through a gate on the right (west) and
down a track heading straight to the Waitaha riverbed, where there may be a locked gate. From here,
head south along the riverbed. The vehicle track follows the edge of the Waitaha riverbed all the way to
Macgregor Creek, at the southern edge of the alluvial fan below Robinson Slip (the whole alluvial fan
is farmed and fenced off, excluding access). Then it is up the true right of Macgregor Creek to the forks
(I34 272873 / BW17 172 257), and up Robinson Slip’s stream bed to the forks at I34 291878 / BV17 191 262.
Some climb out about 200 metres below these forks and sidle through scrub on a broad spur on the
true right, returning to the true right branch above the forks at about the 1000-metre contour. Above
here, the steep stream leading up to the north-east has been followed up to the ridge north-west of Mt
Allen. The slip is steep, eroding and periodically active, so this is not a place to be during rain.