Distance: 0.5 km (0.3 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 886m to 967m. Gain: 16m. Loss: 83m . Gradient: 11 deg (Gentle)
Skills:

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-moderate (difficulty: 2/5)
Tussock / river-gravel / open bush / cut track

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 signposted track junction, the Blue Range Hut track sidles north onto the ridge, and follows it before dropping north on a side-spur to Blue Range Hut. The track is marked and cut through beech and fern.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From Blue Range Hut, the track climbs south onto the ridge, and follows it before dropping slightly south to sidle the face, where it meets the main track from Kiriwhakapapa to Cow Creek at a signposted junction.