Distance: 2.7 km (1.3 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 923m to 1080m. Gain: 91m. Loss: 248m . Gradient: 7 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

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

No description

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From the Neill Forks turnoff a poorly marked, infrequently cut track runs SSW down Cone Ridge to reach Cone highpoint. Through the bush the track is easy to lose but the bush is open and the ridge easy to follow. As things narrow further south the track becomes better defined and can be followed all the way to the bushedge 500m before cone summit. A faint trail with little or no marking follows the western side of the ridge past dry tarns to reach a small conical mound and a signpost - the junction with the Waiohine-Hector tarck.