Distance: 2.9 km (3.0 DOC hours) - Unmaintained track - Moderate terrain
Altitude: 615m to 1349m. Gain: 736m. Loss: 2m . Gradient: 15 deg (Moderate)
Skills: Alpine weather (2/7) - Occasional rivers (3/6)

Unmaintained track (5/9)
Former track, overgrown - markers / ground trail still followable

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

Moderate (difficulty: 3/5)
Low scrub in open or bush / river rocks

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

Cross the Waohine RIver (the eastern fork) at Parks Forks and start up the face opposite heading ESE. Very steep going at first - a tough climb for 300 vertical meters before the ridge levels out and starts to meander. The ridgeline is narrow in places, broad in others and drops to various saddles The bushedge is reached around 1200m and a further rocky kilometer follows through sparse leatherleaf on a narrow ridgeline with a good ground trail. Finally you break onto broad tussock tops. Ignore the first spur dropping south, and continue a further 500m round the head of a creek to where a 2nd broad tussock face drops to the SSE. This is the start of the side-spur dropping to Dorset Hut. There's a signpost marking the turnoff, but its easy to miss.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

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