Distance: 3.2 km (1.5 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 1307m to 1543m. Gain: 27m. Loss: 263m . Gradient: 5 deg (Gentle)
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

Gentle (difficulty: 2/5)
Gentle slopes

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

Can be subject to deep snow in winter, but no exposure to falls.

From the signposted track junction 400m north of the Mangahuia highpoint, a good tramping track drops gently west to Rangiwahia Hut. Sections are deeply scoured by water, but otherwise this is an easy, gentle tramp.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From the track junction above the hut, a well-worn tramping track heads east towards the Mnagahuia Range, passing the hut's distant woodshed on the way. The track climbs very gently, gaining 280m in 3km.