Distance: 2.3 km (2.0 DOC hours) - Unmarked route, clear - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 1168m to 1933m. Gain: 14m. Loss: 771m . Gradient: 21 deg (Moderate)
Skills: Occasional scrambles (3/7)

Unmarked route, clear (7/9)
Unmarked route, follows obvious geography (river, spur, trail, etc)

Primary, unmapped (2/5)
Route not on maps, but is 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

Occasional scrambles (difficulty: 3/7)
Tramp with some scrambles and exposure to falls

None (difficulty: 1/6)
No unbridged river crossings

Unknown (difficulty: 0/7)
Not specified

South side of V-notch holds snow late in the year.

Sidling north from the Temple-Ahuriri pass, dropping slightly as you go leads across stable screen faces below pt 2058 to the ridge just east of V-Notch pass. Drop to the pass staying on scree south of the summit rocks - I crossed some 20m east of the V notch itself.

Drop into the head basin. The creek becomes impassable, so sidle west onto good open tussock spurs. The eastern valleyside is also passable but very scrubby lower down - I don't recommend the experience.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

Climb the spur just upriver of the creek draining V-notch pass, and once on a good terrace sidle to the base of the tussock/screen face leading to the pass. Climb to the pass, wither crossing at the V-notch, or (as I did) some 20m east of it.

Once on the southern face it is possible to sidle on good steady scree below pt2058 to reach the Ahiriri-Temple pass.

Alternatively descend the gully below the V-notch into the head of the Ahuriri.