Distance: 1.2 km (0.7 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 1332m to 1498m. Gain: 166m. Loss: 69m . Gradient: 11 deg (Moderate)
Skills: Alpine weather (2/7) 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 (difficulty: 3/5)
Occasional moderate climbs

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

Alpine weather (difficulty: 2/7)
Tramp on open tops, exposed to alpine weather

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

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

The poled route (‘The Alpine Route’) heads south over Ada Flat, and descends to a saddle where a cut track swings SSW to Old Man. There is a water tank on the summit of Old Man – very welcome in the dry ranges. A signpost marks the track junction.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From Old Man summit a poled route heads north, dropping towards a saddle where it becomes a cut track through the bush. Climbing again the poled route resumes across the flat tops of Ada Flat. A ridgeline joins from the east here - the main Richmond Range with a rough, hard route along it to Richmond Saddle.