Distance: 2.0 km (1.0 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy terrain
Altitude: 726m to 824m. Gain: 110m. Loss: 72m . Gradient: 5 deg (Gentle)
Skills: Alpine weather (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 (difficulty: 1/5)
Grass / prepared surface

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

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

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

Heading south from Burn the cut, marked tramping track climbs SE to over 800m, before swinging south-west down the range. After a couple of km it swings west and starts to drop to the saddle towards pt835. Just before the final drop to the saddle, flagging tape round a DOC marker-post marks the start of the route south along the Main Range to Herepai and Dundas.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From the saddle east of pt835, the cut, marked tramping track climbs east and starts to swing round the heads of a major watershed to reach Burn Hut. Finally swinging finally NNW the track drops 100m to a saddle, just beyond which Burn Hut sits on a low, but exposed peak.