Distance: 1.1 km (0.3 DOC hours) - Benched track - Easy terrain
Altitude: 313m to 423m. Gain: 112m. Loss: 22m . Gradient: 7 deg (Gentle)
Skills:

Benched track (3/9)
Benched, maintained, marked tramping track or pack-track

Primary, mapped (1/5)
Formal route, on maps, principal access to hut or along range / catchment

Gentle (difficulty: 2/5)
Gentle slopes

Easy (difficulty: 1/5)
Grass / prepared surface

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

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

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

From the Kaitoke Roadend, a broad, well used, benched track sidles and climbs east towards Puffer Saddle. The surface is clay and can be slippery - but this is an easy, good track.

The junction where the Southern Crossing turns off the Puffer Saddle track is signposted and reached after about 1km.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From track junction, a broad, well used, benched track sidles and descends wast to the Kaitoke roadend.