Distance: 5.4 km (2.0 DOC hours) - Benched track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 402m to 631m. Gain: 301m. Loss: 87m . Gradient: 4 deg (Gentle)
Skills:

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

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

Unknown (difficulty: 0/7)
Not specified

No description

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From Mairi Saddle Hut north, the old roadbed sidles gentle down the south-eastern face of the Whakapohai valley. Just north of the saddle at pt515 (shown on the map) an old benched track branches south, climbing from the roadbed to the mica mines on Mt Clarke. The junction is obvious, but not signposted.