Distance: 1.7 km (0.3 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 1133m to 1244m. Gain: 0m. Loss: 111m . Gradient: 4 deg (Gentle)
Skills: Winter - Snow/ice underfoot (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

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

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

Snow/ice underfoot (difficulty: 2/7)
Snow/ice likely on track

No description

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From the Lodge, the defined track heads west across the tableland, poled, running 1.5km to a signposted junction with tracks leading to Lake Peel (via Balloon Hut) and to the Karamea (via Splugeons Shelter)