Distance: 1.1 km (0.7 DOC hours) - Unmaintained track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 385m to 679m. Gain: 90m. Loss: 294m . Gradient: 21 deg (Moderate)
Skills: - Streams (2/6)

Unmaintained track (5/9)
Former track, overgrown - markers / ground trail still followable

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

Moderate (difficulty: 3/5)
Occasional moderate climbs

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

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 track junction / highpoint 600m east of Te Whakaumu summit, pick up the spur dropping ENE towards Twain Hut. A trap-line of white kill traps runs down this spur (2015), though track markers are sporadic at first, improving lower down. At the creek, cross to the opposite bank (ankle-knee deep, easy in normal flows, could flood). Pick up an marked, uncut track zigzagging up the opposite face to the spur 100m above, where Twain hut is located.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From Twain Hut, return to the river via the track west. Cross the river which is ankle-knee deep and easy crossing in normal flows (could flood). Opposite, track markers mark the start of the track climbing WSW towards Te Whakaumu highpoint. The track runs up the spur to the first unnamed highpoint. Lower down, the track is well marked, but by the summit you have little more than possum traps to follow, as marking drops off. A faint ground trail exists. The track junction is at the summit, though those heading to Saddle Hut can avoid the last of the climb and sidle the eastern face to the saddle beyond.