Distance: 4.4 km (1.0 DOC hours) - Benched track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 644m to 1046m. Gain: 51m. Loss: 453m . Gradient: 7 deg (Gentle)
Skills: Alpine weather (2/7) Winter - Snow/ice underfoot (2/7)

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-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 Big Hill Saddle, the old pack track is benched as it sidles gently down towards Arrowtown. After about 3km Eichardts Flat is reached, where a signposted track junction marks the point where Sawpit Gully track joins from the east.
0.5-1hr

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From Eichardts Flat, the old pack track is benched as it sidles gently up towards Big Hill Saddle.
0.5-1 hr