Distance: 2.0 km (1.0 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 487m to 640m. Gain: 199m. Loss: 46m . Gradient: 7 deg (Gentle)
Skills:

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

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

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

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

Partially complete PNCC tramping track:
- From the junction of the loop track and Arawaru route, follow the loop track north down the ridge. After about 2km a marked junction is reached where trapline H4 joins from the east.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

Partially complete PNCC tramping track:
- From the junction with H4, follow the Loop Track south, climbing gently up the ridge for 2km, crossing over pt 628 and starting to climb to pt664
- The track swings sharply ESE off the ridge at an obvious junction, from which a route also continues SW towards Arawaru.