Distance: 1.8 km (1.0 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 1229m to 1333m. Gain: 100m. Loss: 104m . Gradient: 6 deg (Gentle)
Skills: Winter - Snow/ice underfoot (2/7)

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

Gentle (difficulty: 2/5)
Gentle slopes

Easy-moderate (difficulty: 2/5)
Tussock / river-gravel / open bush / cut track

None (difficulty: 1/7)
No alpine skills required

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

Snow/ice underfoot (difficulty: 2/7)
Snow/ice likely on track

A good track follows the ridgeline from the track junction to Parks Peak hut, climbing a couple of small peaks, threatening to break out above the bush but never quite doing so. Parks Peak hut sits in a large clearing on the eastern side of the ridge, looking over Hawkes Bay.

Note: changed the estimated time from 30 hours to 1 hour (estimated 2km/hr)

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

A good track follows the ridgeline from the track junction north from Parks Peak hut, climbing a couple of small peaks, threatening to break out above the bush but never quite doing so. The signposted junction (right) to Sentry Box Hut is reached after 1.8km.