Distance: 3.7 km (2.0 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Hard terrain
Altitude: 156m to 1108m. Gain: 982m. Loss: 30m . Gradient: 16 deg (Steep)
Skills: Alpine weather (2/7) 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

Steep (difficulty: 5/5)
Steep climbs of >1000m

Hard (difficulty: 5/5)
Thick scrub-bash / continuous river boulders, waterfalls, or gorges

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

Unknown (difficulty: 0/6)
Not specified

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

4 hrs up.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

Watch for where the new track line leaves the old around the 760m contour. Don't try and follow the old route! Do look out for the original Mt Brown hut site around the 920m contour.