Distance: 3.7 km (3.5 DOC hours) - Tramping track
Altitude: 152m to 1121m. Gain: 4m. Loss: 973m . Gradient: 16 deg (Moderate-hard)
Skills: Alpine weather (2/7) - Streams (2/6) Winter - Snow/ice underfoot (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

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

Unknown (difficulty: 0/5)
Not specified

Alpine weather (difficulty: 2/7)
Tramp on open tops, exposed to alpine weather

Streams (difficulty: 2/6)
Small streams, danger only in extreme weather

Snow/ice underfoot (difficulty: 2/7)
Snow/ice likely on track

Usually no problem, but anywhere on the bushline on the west cost can get meters of snow in one fall at times.

Mind your knees.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

A well marked, well trodden, well maintained tramping track climbs steeply to the bush line and then follows spaced markers around the knob to the hut.