Distance: 2.9 km (2.0 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 1109m to 1466m. Gain: 378m. Loss: 48m . Gradient: 8 deg (Moderate)
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

Moderate (difficulty: 3/5)
Occasional moderate climbs

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

Unknown (difficulty: 0/7)
Not specified

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

Unknown (difficulty: 0/7)
Not specified

No description

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

Poled across the open grassed ridge, the track is marked where it enters the bush. The descent steepens under the damp beech then pops out onto the tableland, tussock clearings interspersed with forest.

Continuing to the right at a marked junction (left is a longer track to the Lodge via Sphinx Cave), the track joins the Salisbury track a few hundred metres before the Lodge.