Distance: 11.3 km (9.0 DOC hours) - Unmarked route, clear - Moderate terrain
Altitude: 851m to 1970m. Gain: 1119m. Loss: 952m . Gradient: 11 deg (Moderate-hard)
Skills: Occasional scrambles (3/7) - Streams (2/6)

Unmarked route, clear (7/9)
Unmarked route, follows obvious geography (river, spur, trail, etc)

minor (5/5)
A viable route, not widely used

Moderate-hard (difficulty: 4/5)
Continuous moderate climbs

Moderate (difficulty: 3/5)
Low scrub in open or bush / river rocks

Occasional scrambles (difficulty: 3/7)
Tramp with some scrambles and exposure to falls

Streams (difficulty: 2/6)
Small streams, danger only in extreme weather

Unknown (difficulty: 0/7)
Not specified

No description

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

Follow the Tindall stream up from the hut. Going is good up the tussock / rock valley floor until a series of waterfalls are encountered. The tussock ridges on the right (true left) provide good access from here to the basin above at the head of the creek and a series of emerald-green tarns. From here it’s a 200m climb to the pass, over first tussock and later good solid scree. The pass provides amazing views of the tarns, the Macaulay valley, and glaciers all around: Mt Chevalier, and the Sibbald Range.

Descend the scree-elevator on the far side, free-running to the valley floor. 2 hours of picking your way downriver through loose rocks and boulders follows on the recently vacated glacial valley floor, to the old terminal moraine. From here going is more stable but steeper, down solid scree and later tussock to the Godley Valley flats.