Distance: 10.0 km - Unmarked route, hard - Hard terrain
Altitude: 84m to 1682m. Gain: 961m. Loss: 1814m . Gradient: 16 deg (Steep)
Skills: Mountaineering (6/7) - Occasional rivers (3/6) Winter - High avalanche risk, iceaxe/crampons (7/7)

Unmarked route, hard (8/9)
Unmarked route, no clear geographic features to follow

Secondary, unmapped (4/5)
Route not on maps, an alternative recognised access to hut or along range / catchment

Steep (difficulty: 5/5)
Steep climbs of >1000m

Hard (difficulty: 5/5)
Thick scrub-bash / continuous river boulders, waterfalls, or gorges

Mountaineering (difficulty: 6/7)
Mountaineering route - technical equipment & skills required

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

High avalanche risk, iceaxe/crampons (difficulty: 7/7)
Ice axe and crampons required, high/prolonged avalanche risk

If you have to ask what is like in winter - don't do it.

A mountaineer's route. As far as Homer Saddle, (or as far as the head of the Esperance from the Gulliver road end) is reasonably straight forward, the section between those two points requires confidence on steep snow and rock and good route finding skills. Note the names that are incorrect on the current topomaps. Lyttles Dip should be by Pt 1693, and as much as this pass could be described as a single point on a ridge, 'Grave Talbot Pass' should be on the low point SE of Pt 1697.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

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