Distance: 0.8 km (0.3 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 376m to 538m. Gain: 162m. Loss: 25m . Gradient: 14 deg (Gentle)
Skills:

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

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

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

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

From the river crossing, markers point across small flats to the spur to the east, where a cut, maintained, marked tramping track climbs 100m to the ridgeline. Crossing a small knob it reaches the signposted track junction after 800m.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From the track junction, a good cut marked tramping track heads west over a knob and down a spur to the Donald River. Good campspots exist beside the river on the eastern bank.