Distance: 2.4 km (2.0 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Moderate terrain
Altitude: 764m to 1484m. Gain: 0m. Loss: 720m . Gradient: 17 deg (Moderate-hard)
Skills: Alpine weather (2/7) - Streams (2/6) Winter - Snow/ice underfoot (2/7)

Tramping track (4/9)
Cut, marked tramping track: natural, rough ground surface

Secondary, unmapped (4/5)
Route not on maps, an alternative recognised access to hut or along range / catchment

Moderate-hard (difficulty: 4/5)
Continuous 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

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

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

No description

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

This an old NZFS track. The start of the track is to the east of a large windfall/slip on the true left of Dorset Creek & the track can be difficult to pick up. The track climbs very steeply a small rib to the main spur, which when reached is very obvious. The track up the main spur to the bushline at the 1220m contour is well defined & well marked with permolat. At the bushline, a defined footbed sticks to the spur & leads all the way to the marked tarn west of South King.