Distance: 7.6 km (2.5 DOC hours) - Benched track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 420m to 1016m. Gain: 810m. Loss: 247m . Gradient: 8 deg (Gentle)
Skills: - Streams (2/6)

Benched track (3/9)
Benched, maintained, marked tramping track or pack-track

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

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

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Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

A good benched pack-track runs down the kiwi from Kiwi Saddle Hut to the forks with the Wangapeka. The track initially sidles the eastern face in and out of side-valleys before dropping to the valley floor. The Kiwi is bridged at the forks with the Wangapeka. The track then heads 50m up the Wangapeka to join the Wangapeka Track at a swingbridge over the main river.

1.5-3 hrs