Distance: 1.9 km (1.5 DOC hours) - Unmarked route, clear - Moderate terrain
Altitude: 580m to 1084m. Gain: 504m. Loss: 0m . Gradient: 16 deg (Moderate)
Skills: Alpine weather (2/7) Winter - Snow/ice underfoot (2/7)

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

minor (5/5)
A viable route, not widely used

Moderate (difficulty: 3/5)
Occasional 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

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

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

A rough route, once marked, runs up the ridge east of pt1094. Easy going through the bush, simply follow the ridgeline west from the saddle, climbing through first podocarp, later beech. A long narrow section of ridge through mossy forest takes you to the base of the face of pt1094, with open ground visible ahead. Cut left across the face, cross a small dry creek, and climb, remaining in bush a further 60m - this avoids tall tussock and leatherleaf to the north.

Once out of the bush, sidle north about 80m, passing the spur you've been climbing and crossing a small scrubby gut. Once across, pick your way up the next minor spur. There is a good way thought the leatherleaf but it takes some finding. 30m later you out in the open - head uphill aiming for the radio mast visible above. The Kapakapanui track is on the hilltop.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

At the radio mast on pt1094, head due east down the face. Aim about 50m north of the ridge visible below. Once level with the bushedge south of you, cut south across a scrubby gut and sidle the grassy face below to the main ridge. The ridge is of tall tussock and is ok to decend but hard to climb. Drop into the bush and follow the main ridge west, downhill. The only chalelnging section is 500m later where the ridge appears to end, and a compass is handy to pick the direction to drop the following face until the ridge starts again lower down.

Dropping out of beech into podocarp forest the ridge swings ENE and drops to an obvious saddle where it turns north towards pt601. A clear but unmarked junction exists here with a broad open ridge / route dropping south towards the Waiotauru.