Distance: 2.9 km (3.0 DOC hours) - Unmarked route, clear - Moderate terrain
Altitude: 398m to 788m. Gain: 326m. Loss: 403m . Gradient: 15 deg (Moderate)
Skills: - Streams (2/6)

Unmarked route, clear (7/9)
Unmarked route, follows obvious geography (river, spur, trail, etc)

Primary, mapped (1/5)
Formal route, on maps, principal access to hut or along range / catchment

Moderate (difficulty: 3/5)
Occasional moderate climbs

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

None (difficulty: 1/7)
No alpine skills required

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

None (difficulty: 1/7)
No alpine skills required

From the Coppermine track junction, continue up the Mangaatua creek - heading north for about 1km. Locate the first slip/creek shown on the map on the eastern valley face, and climb it. At the top, keep to the southern side of the clear area/slip and look out for a well traveled trail climbing into scrub above. Markers soon appear and this becomes a cut/marked DOC track which swings north on the ridgeline towards the highpoint, before dropping west into the Raparapawai.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From the signposted turnoff at the forks, a cut, marked track climbs a spur to the ridgeline and ascends to scrubby tops above. On reaching the summit the track heads 200m south of the highpoint and drops into the creek draining west from that point. The track markers and cut track then stop and you are lefdt to find your way down the grassy creek/slip to the main river below. The junction of this route with the main creek at the western end is not marked or signposted.

Follow the creek downstream. It starts of narrow and bouldery but eventually open up to good travel with narrow river flats beside it.

The s=track to coppermine is signposted on the western bank about 1km below the point you hit the creek.