Distance: 3.7 km (2.0 DOC hours) - Marked route - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 1357m to 1509m. Gain: 199m. Loss: 212m . Gradient: 6 deg (Gentle)
Skills: Alpine weather (2/7) Winter - Iceaxe/crampons (4/7)

Marked route (6/9)
Uncut route, with markers normally within sight

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

Iceaxe/crampons (difficulty: 4/7)
Ice axe and crampons required in winter

From Slaty Hut, follow the poled route which sidles the eastern face of Slaty PEak before regaining the ridgeline and crossing a slight saddle to pt1538. From pt1538 the route drops to a low bushy saddle, before returning to tussock and low scrub on Ada Flat - the unmarked junction with the main Richmond Range,

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From Ada flat the Alpine Route heads north across tussock tops, dropping to a bushy saddle before climbing to the open pt1538, topped by a crown of rock. Here a major spur joins from the NE (a rough route down to Roebuck Hut), and the Alpine Route swings WNW towards Slaty Peak. The route continues poled along an obvious ridgeline until just prior to Slaty PEak, where it cuts across the steep eastern tussock face (far higher than shown on the map) before descending to Slaty Hut.

The track is poled, and well used.