Distance: 2.2 km (1.0 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 696m to 965m. Gain: 304m. Loss: 36m . Gradient: 9 deg (Gentle)
Skills: Alpine weather (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

Unknown (difficulty: 0/7)
Not specified

From junction just east of the Flats Hut, follow the Great Walk up the hill, where. At the top you will reach the Routeburn Falls Hut.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From Falls hut follow the Great Walk down the hill, where at the bottom you reach the short turn off to Flats Hut.