Yeats Ridge and Crystal Bivouac

The track down Yeats Ridge is regularly maintained by polytech students on the West Coast and
provides another option off the range. Descending off the range from the north, traverse over or sidle
north-west under Pt 1694 metres, reaching Yeats Ridge at about the 1540-metre contour. A couple of
knobs can be sidled on their northern sides, leading to a partial track through open scrub to a clearing
east of Yeats Hut (DOC, four bunks).
From Crystal Bivvy, Permolat volunteers have cut and remarked the route down to the Toaroha
Valley (2009). It begins at the bush edge north-west of the bivvy and descends to the main valley track
at the top of a rise on the true left of Pretty Creek.