Distance: 2.6 km (1.3 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 810m to 949m. Gain: 157m. Loss: 18m . 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

From Rocks Hut, a cut, marked tramping track runs north through scrubby low bush. A turnoff east to 'lookout is passed after 50 meters. The track can be muddy, and has numerous treeroots, but is otherwise good. After 2km the track emerges onto rock and scrub and is poled for the last few hundred meters to Dun Saddle. The saddle is marked by a signpost.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From Dun Saddle a poled route sidles south, soon entering low scrubby bush and becoming a cut, marked track. There are numerous roots to step around and the track is muddy, but it's an otherwise good route. Shortly before Rocks Hut a track branches off west signposted 'lookout'. The hut is 50m beyond along the main track.