Distance: 3.3 km (1.5 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 1021m to 1287m. Gain: 99m. Loss: 365m . Gradient: 8 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

Taking the track south towards Tarn Hut from Bishops Cap, you’re back into mature beech. After 3km of ridgeline and sidling, a signposted turnoff descends east to Tarn Hut, whist the main track continues along the ridge. It’s only 200m and a 40m descent to Tarn Hut (5 beds) and one of 3 lakes in the Richmond Ranges – surely worth a look!

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From Tarn Hut return to the ridgeline track and follow it north through mature beech forest. After 3km of ridgeline walking a signposted track junction is reached, 200m south of the summit of Bishops Cap.