Distance: 5.8 km (3.0 DOC hours) - Benched track
Altitude: 96m to 317m. Gain: 217m. Loss: 437m . Gradient: 6 deg
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

Unknown (difficulty: 0/5)
Not specified

Unknown (difficulty: 0/5)
Not specified

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

No description

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

Through carpark to farm gate, route follows fence-line then turns left at end of paddock and follows river for 1.8km then cross the Waitawheta river(maybe impassable after heavy rain). Track then climbs spur to 300m and drops back down to Dean track junction