Distance: 0.4 km (0.3 DOC hours) - Marked route - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 1229m to 1404m. Gain: 175m. Loss: 0m . Gradient: 25 deg (Moderate)
Skills: Alpine weather (2/7) Winter - Iceaxe/crampons (4/7)

Marked route (6/9)
Uncut route, with markers normally within sight

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

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

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

Iceaxe/crampons (difficulty: 4/7)
Ice axe and crampons required in winter

From Dundas Hut, it's a 40m climb to the spur, and a further 150m climb to the Main Range at pt1415.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From the signposted junction at pt1415, a good poled track drops ESE down the narrow spur. 150m below a second signpost points north off the spur to where Dundas Hut site a further 40m below in a tussock and leatherleaf basin.