Distance: 7.1 km (4.0 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 811m to 1393m. Gain: 838m. Loss: 681m . Gradient: 12 deg (Moderate)
Skills: Alpine weather (2/7) - Occasional rivers (3/6)

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 (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

Occasional rivers (difficulty: 3/6)
Occasional rivers - impassible after heavy rain

Unknown (difficulty: 0/7)
Not specified

A well-maintained track leads from the carpark at the end of the Urchin access road up above the bushline, over Urchin and up over the ridge running along the western side of the Waipakihi Valley. The track continues along this ridge to meet up with the Umukarikari Range but take the signposted fork leading down into the valley, where the marked track ends Lots of good camping areas on the flats immediately across on the true right from the track end.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

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