Distance: 1.8 km (0.5 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 1014m to 1383m. Gain: 46m. Loss: 408m . Gradient: 14 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 poled track drops from the Arthur Range to the bushedge starting 1km north of Mt Patriarch. From the bushedge down the track is marked and cut, dropping steeply at times to the saddle with pt1135, which it sidles to the north to reach the hut at Kiwi Saddle.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

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