Distance: 1.5 km (0.3 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 1267m to 1498m. Gain: 232m. Loss: 31m . Gradient: 10 deg (Moderate)
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

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

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

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

From the track junction head north along the ridge to the bush line. From this point, climb due north to the high point of 'Old Man'.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

Descend south from the high point of 'Old Man' to the bush line. Continue heading south along the ridge to the track junction that heads due east to 'The Forks' on Top Valley Stream.