Distance: 2.8 km (1.5 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 711m to 1383m. Gain: 701m. Loss: 29m . Gradient: 15 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

Secondary, mapped (3/5)
Formal route, on maps, an alternative recognised 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

From Rocks Ahead Biv the track climbs steeply up through the bush on a side spur in a NW direction, where it joins an easterly running spur, that swings due west & continues to climb to an un-named high point SE of pt. 1383 on Spion Kop & the bush edge. Upon reaching Spion Kop the route (exposed open tops) continues to climb in a north direction, over pt. 1383 & swings NW to meet the turn off to the Omarukokere Biv.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From the Omarukokere Biv turn off the route remains on the exposed open Spion Kop tops & swings SE towards pt. 1383. South of this high point is an un-named high point where the route swings east & drops to the bush edge. The route skirts along the bush edge & then enters the bush proper where a well-travelled track quickly develops. The track swings SE & descends steeply to Rocks Ahead Biv. The middle & lower sections of the track down through the bush was dominated by windfall (July, 2018) of which DOC are aware.