Distance: 2.7 km (1.3 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 1221m to 1370m. Gain: 75m. Loss: 224m . Gradient: 6 deg (Gentle)
Skills: Alpine weather (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

None (difficulty: 1/7)
No alpine skills required

From the Cameron Hut track junction the track drops steeply to the first of several saddles. Teetering between scree faces to the south & bush faces to the north, the well marked route follows the ridgeline south east to pt. 1359, where it enters beech forest & becomes a cut marked track again. Sidling just north of the ridgeline it's a further 1.5km along beautiful beech-leaved tracks & manuka forest to the signposted track junction just west of the summit of Kurikapango with signs indicating a descent to either the Cameron or 'The Lakes' carparks.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

Heading NE from the track junction slightly west of the Kurikapango summit, the track continues to follow the ridgeline, generally sidling north of its summit. The track wanders & climbs through pockets of manuka & pines & then enters a section of beautiful beech-leaved tracks with velvet-like moss carpets either side & then pops out of the bush onto open tops at pt. 1359. From this vantage point there are views down towards the Cameron Hut area & further afield to Mt Ruapehu, which it's heading sitting above pt. 1191. Beyond pt. 1359 the track teeters between bush to the north & scree faces to the south as it drops over a couple of saddles & makes the steep, loose climb to the Cameron Hut track junction. The junction is signposted on the bushedge on the unnamed summit 1km south of Kiwi Saddle Hut.