Distance: 0.8 km (0.5 DOC hours) - Unmarked route, clear - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 1307m to 1576m. Gain: 269m. Loss: 1m . Gradient: 19 deg (Moderate)
Skills: Alpine weather (2/7) - Streams (2/6)

Unmarked route, clear (7/9)
Unmarked route, follows obvious geography (river, spur, trail, etc)

Primary, unmapped (2/5)
Route not on maps, but is 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

Streams (difficulty: 2/6)
Small streams, danger only in extreme weather

Unknown (difficulty: 0/7)
Not specified

No description

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

At the signposted turnoff just south of Mad Dog Hill, drop down a SW leading spur into the head of the Studholme catchment. The route descends the sparsely poled spur & the first 100m is down through loose but easy scree. The next few hundred metres require full attention as the route descends, zigzagging down a steep narrow rocky rib, where a cairn marks the point to drop west off the spur to the bush line where a large orange triangle is to be found. The track descends through the bush along a good ground trail to a small log-jammed stream which Studholme Saddle Hut sits.