Distance: 3.7 km (1.8 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 669m to 1477m. Gain: 166m. Loss: 963m . Gradient: 18 deg (Moderate-hard)
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-hard (difficulty: 4/5)
Continuous 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

A continuous descent through tussock following cairns until a cut track at the bush line. The track has recently been cut and is easy to follow, with only one or two short steep sections.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

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