Distance: 4.9 km (3.0 DOC hours) - Marked route - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 894m to 1466m. Gain: 620m. Loss: 48m . Gradient: 8 deg (Moderate)
Skills: - Streams (2/6)

Marked route (6/9)
Uncut route, with markers normally within sight

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

Unknown (difficulty: 0/7)
Not specified

Streams (difficulty: 2/6)
Small streams, danger only in extreme weather

Unknown (difficulty: 0/7)
Not specified

From the hut, the track first approaches the river, then climbs 80m above and remains above until contouring back to the stream bed a km short of the pass.

Negotiating rocks and boulders, the track arrives at the base of the scree climb to the pass, remaining close to the left bluff rising high above.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

Descend from the pass, remaining close to the right bluff and follow the footpad, initially in the stream bed then rising on the TL 80m above the river.

The track sidles the valley side until dropping close to the stream just before Shelter Rock Hut.