Distance: 0.8 km (0.3 DOC hours) - Benched track - Easy terrain
Altitude: 422m to 471m. Gain: 120m. Loss: 89m . Gradient: 15 deg (Gentle)
Skills:

Benched track (3/9)
Benched, maintained, marked tramping track or pack-track

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

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

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

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

From Puffer Saddle, a now broad, well used benched track sidles west down the hillside towards the Kaitoke Roadend. After about 500m a signposted junction marks the start of the Southern Crossing track to Alpha, Kime and Otaki Forks, among other destinations.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

The benched track continues from the track junction to its highpoint at Puffer Saddle.