Distance: 4.1 km (4.0 DOC hours) - Unmarked route, clear - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 4m to 990m. Gain: 1082m. Loss: 99m . Gradient: 17 deg (Moderate)
Skills: Alpine weather (2/7) - Streams (2/6)

Unmarked route, clear (7/9)
Unmarked route, follows obvious geography (river, spur, trail, etc)

Secondary, unmapped (4/5)
Route not on maps, an alternative recognised 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

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

Unknown (difficulty: 0/7)
Not specified

Fairly open bush on the TR of the river which drains into the head of Cascade Cove. Cross an old trapping track with blue markers (I'm told this is a good route to the tops toward Pt980. Cross a stream and get onto the ridge heading to Mt Bradshaw. This is open bush, easily ascended. After a flat area between Pts 823 & 727, there is a band of nasty leatherwood & bogpine scrub for about 80 metres. Beyond this is a simple ascent of the NW ridge of Bradshaw through tussock and some boot-high alpine scrub

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

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