Distance: 3.9 km (1.5 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 896m to 1007m. Gain: 183m. Loss: 82m . Gradient: 4 deg (Gentle)
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

Gentle (difficulty: 2/5)
Gentle slopes

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

Part of the St James Walkway, this is a well defined track.

Leaving Cannibal Gorge Hut, the walkway heads gently upstream, never far from the river, to a fixed bridge that crosses to the TL. Ada Pass Hut is just a short distance along the track through open grassy flats.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

Part of the St James Walkway, this is a well defined track.

A short distance from Ada Pass hut along the track through the grassy flats is a fixed bridge that crosses to the TR of Maruia River (right branch).

Never far from the river, the walkway continues gently downstream to Cannibal Gorge Hut.