Distance: 2.5 km (1.5 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 284m to 676m. Gain: 507m. Loss: 122m . Gradient: 15 deg (Moderate)
Skills: - Streams (2/6)

Tramping track (4/9)
Cut, marked tramping track: natural, rough ground surface

Primary, mapped (1/5)
Formal route, on maps, principal access to hut or along range / catchment

Moderate (difficulty: 3/5)
Occasional moderate climbs

Easy-moderate (difficulty: 2/5)
Tussock / river-gravel / open bush / cut track

None (difficulty: 1/7)
No alpine skills required

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

None (difficulty: 1/7)
No alpine skills required

From Te Pourewa Hut, follow the marked, cut DOC track west climbing to a low saddle and descending to a small sidestream after 200m. Cross the stream (ankle deep in normal flows - unlikely to be a problem). The main climb then begins - 2km in which you ascent 400m to pt 690. The track swings north at pt 690, dropping to a saddle and climbing again to an unmarked peak. At the summit yellow triangles mark the junction with the main ridge route running north along the ridgeline.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From the summit and junction with the main ridge north, a marked, cut DOC track runs south to pt 690 before swinging east and descending to Te Pourewa Hut. 200m before the hut the track drops to a sidestream (ankle deep in normal flows), which must be crossed, climbing the far bank to a low saddle before descending again to the hut. Te Pourewa Hut sits on the bushedge at the start of large scrubby/weedy paddocks - on the track.