Distance: 9.6 km (3.0 DOC hours) - Benched track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 729m to 1444m. Gain: 1428m. Loss: 722m . Gradient: 13 deg (Moderate)
Skills: Alpine weather (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

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

Unknown (difficulty: 0/7)
Not specified

Straightforward, well-marked and maintained track up to the shoulder of Ngapuketurua. Worth taking the opportunity to fill up on water where the track bends around a small stream, about 3 kms in from the roadend. There's an obvious campsite at the spot where you climb down a steep bank to get to the stream. An old DOC junction sign indicates the end of the marked track - note that you need permission from the leaseholder to go past the bushline.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

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