Distance: 4.4 km (2.0 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 727m to 1093m. Gain: 500m. Loss: 179m . Gradient: 9 deg (Moderate)
Skills: Alpine weather (2/7) 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

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

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

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

At the northern end of the flat gravel area at Maymorn Jn, a track cuts north along the ridge where the road starts to drop NNE towards the Waiotauru. The signpost is frequently destroyed.

The track follows the ridge north over several small knobs through tall bush before finally climbing the tussock and scrub southern face of Kapakapanui to reach a signposted track junction. The trig and summit at 50m further north.

Several spurs proved routes east and west off this section, most notable the long spur west of pt890. If you take this, be prepared to drop slightly south of the forks at its base or you will hit steep, broken faces.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From the signposted track junction just south of Kapakapanui highpoint, the Renata / Maymorn Jn track drops south down a low scrub and tussock face before finding a bushclad ridge below. Once on the ridge, a long walk through bush follows, over numerous small knows, before the track exits at the saddle at Maymorn Junction.

Several spurs proved routes east and west off this section, most notable the long spur west of pt890. If you take this, be prepared to drop slightly south of the forks at its base or you will hit steep, broken faces.