Distance: 4.7 km (3.0 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 614m to 1371m. Gain: 74m. Loss: 828m . Gradient: 11 deg (Moderate)
Skills: Alpine weather (2/7) - Streams (2/6) Winter - Snow/ice underfoot (2/7)

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

Alpine weather (difficulty: 2/7)
Tramp on open tops, exposed to alpine weather

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

Snow/ice underfoot (difficulty: 2/7)
Snow/ice likely on track

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Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

Access to Ngamoko Range via Deerford and Shorts Tracks. Crosses farmland and creek, then climbs through beech forest. This route follows right-hand section of Deerford Loop track, although either can be taken. The right sidles along before climbing steeply through beech forest and open grassy track affording great views of the central plateau. Left fork passes start of Knights Track before zigzagging steeply through beech forest. Shorts Track begins from the top of the Deerford loop, just below the leatherwood. Track is easy to follow, although can be overgrown with ferns and hook grass at certain times of the year (wear gaiters!). Gradient is steady, but not brutal.