Distance: 8.0 km (3.0 DOC hours) - Unmaintained track - Moderate terrain
Altitude: 15m to 713m. Gain: 802m. Loss: 104m . Gradient: 7 deg (Moderate-hard)
Skills: Alpine weather (2/7)

Unmaintained track (5/9)
Former track, overgrown - markers / ground trail still followable

Secondary, unmapped (4/5)
Route not on maps, an alternative recognised access to hut or along range / catchment

Moderate-hard (difficulty: 4/5)
Continuous moderate climbs

Moderate (difficulty: 3/5)
Low scrub in open or bush / river rocks

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

No description

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

An Old Track Officially closed but partly maintained for trapping purposes

You can find out map at http://www.mapspast.org.nz/ (pre 1999)

Poled above the tree line and then into the scrub and ultimately the bush. Track is easy to follow, but often overgrown which takes a bit of pushing through the scrub. Track improves near the bottom.