Distance: 2.7 km (1.0 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 1293m to 1418m. Gain: 172m. Loss: 227m . Gradient: 9 deg (Gentle)
Skills: Alpine weather (2/7) 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

Gentle (difficulty: 2/5)
Gentle slopes

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

None (difficulty: 1/6)
No unbridged river crossings

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

From the 'Manson Rocks Ahead' junction head west along an open spur to the bush line, where no orange triangle indicates the entry point but it is obvious. Once in the bush the track sidles over a series of high points in a W-NW direction before dropping into an un-named bush saddle, before finally climbing due north to the high point of 1373.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From pt. 1373 head due south for a brief time before the track through the beech forest swings to the E-SE whilst dropping into an un-named bush saddle. The track then sidles through bush in a S-SE direction over a series of un-named bush highpoints before climbing to reach the bush line east of the Manson - Rocks Ahead junction. From the bush line, climb an open spur over an un-named high point in an easterly direction to the aforementioned junction.