Distance: 2.6 km (1.0 DOC hours) - Benched track - Easy terrain
Altitude: 617m to 924m. Gain: 53m. Loss: 356m . Gradient: 9 deg (Moderate)
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

Moderate (difficulty: 3/5)
Occasional moderate climbs

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 the Waipawa Hut turnoff, the broad, platformed Sunrise Track sidles the northern face of pt952 before dropping to the flats below in a series of graded zigzags. The gradient is gentle, and the track is broad, good and well used.

100m after crossing a small stream, an old 4WD track is reached, and a signposted track junction points to Triplex Hut, 100m to the north off the main Sunrise Track.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From the track junction 100m south of Triplex Hut, a good, popular benched track climbs the spur towards Sunrise Hut on an easy gradient. The broad track zigzags its way up the face on a steady gradient through mature bush., later sidling the northern face After 2.5km (1.5km from Triplex due to all the zigzags) a signposted track junction is reached, with the benched, broad Sunrise Track continuing up the spur, and a more basic tramping track dropping south-west towards Waipawa Forks Hut.