Distance: 4.1 km (2.5 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 336m to 1101m. Gain: 793m. Loss: 63m . Gradient: 12 deg (Moderate-hard)
Skills: - Occasional rivers (3/6) 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

Moderate-hard (difficulty: 4/5)
Continuous moderate climbs

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

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

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

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

From Cone Hut, head briefly down the track to the river. A few meters down the river a signpost points west over the creek to the Bull Mound Track. The river must be forded, but is much smaller here than at Tutuwai and is ok (knee deep and narrow) except for after heavy rain.

On the opposite bank, find the DOC triangles and the start of the track climbing steeply to Bull Mound. The gradient is and and constant through good bush on a cut, marked track. Eventually you reach the tops and the track becomes flat and the bush turns to scrub and clearings. Swinging WSW at Bull Mound, the track follows the ridgeline through clearings and scrub to the signposted track junction north of Omega. There are a few small tarns along here and camping is possible if there's been recent rainfall.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From the Bull Mount turnoff, follow the track ENE through a series of clearings and scrub. There are a few small tarns along here and camping is possible if there's been recent rainfall.

At Bull Mound the track swings WSW and starts to drop into mature bush. The descent is steep and continuous, but the track marked and cut (2013). On reaching the valley floor, ford the river. This is much smaller here than at Tutuwai and is ok (knee deep and narrow) except for after heavy rain.

On the eastern bank, a signpost marks the junction with the Cone Hut - Tutawai Hut track. Cone Hut is 200m upriver along the track.