Distance: 4.4 km (1.0 DOC hours) - Benched track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 644m to 1046m. Gain: 453m. Loss: 51m . Gradient: 7 deg (Gentle)
Skills: Alpine weather (2/7) Winter - Snow/ice underfoot (2/7)

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

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 Eichardts Flat, the old pack track is benched as it sidles gently up towards Big Hill Saddle.
0.5-1 hr

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From Big Hill Saddle, the old pack track is benched as it sidles gently down towards Arrowtown. After about 3km Eichardts Flat is reached, where a signposted track junction marks the point where Sawpit Gully track joins from the east.
0.5-1hr