Distance: 0.5 km (0.2 DOC hours) - Unmarked route, hard - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 1457m to 1473m. Gain: 16m. Loss: 0m . Gradient: 2 deg (Flat)
Skills: Alpine weather (2/7) Winter - Snow/ice underfoot (2/7)

Unmarked route, hard (8/9)
Unmarked route, no clear geographic features to follow

Primary, unmapped (2/5)
Route not on maps, but is principal access to hut or along range / catchment

Flat (difficulty: 1/5)
Flat

Easy-moderate (difficulty: 2/5)
Tussock / river-gravel / open bush / cut track

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

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

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

From the junction of Totara Spur and the main range, continue 500m NNW, watching out for a narrower ridgeline dropping NNE and circling the head of the Makaroro. The junction of these two ridges is not signposted, the route is not poled or clear on the ground, and in bad weather it involves a compass and dead reckoning to locate the start of this ridge.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From the junction of the two ridgelines (300m SE of pt1503) follow the broad tops SSE for 500m. The route is neither poled nor obvious on the ground. A spur joins from the east (Totara Spur), and way over on the eastern extremity of the flat tops a signpost marks the junction of the main range route with the Totara Spur track.