Lake Christabel can be reached from three directions taking two or three days to complete. The most popular entrance in is the Lake Christabel Track which takes six - seven hours and begins about 10km along Palmer Road, at the Blue Grey River Bridge, and follows the true right bank to the lake. The Lake Christabel Hut is about 30 minutes past the head of Lake Christabel, on the true left side of the north branch of the Blue Grey River.
The next day you can continue on the Robinson River and Saddle Track which has two huts on it. It takes three hours to reach the Top Robinson Hut (8 bunk) via a marked track and snowpole route. It is then another three hours thirty minutres to reach the Mid Robinson Hut (6 bunk) and then another three hours to the end of Palmer Road.
The other track is the Rough Creek Track which takes six hours starting at the base of the Lewis Pass. The track leads up to the bushline, from where snowpoles mark the way through open tussock tops over the Rough Creek Saddle. The poles meet the track down the upper right hand branch of the Blue Grey River above Lake Christabel.
