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Devilskin Saddle Route
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Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)About this trail
This route links the Nina and Doubtful valleys via Devilskin Saddle. This trip is suitable for experienced trampers and combines mountain-beech forest, river flats and an alpine saddle crossing.
NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0).
Trail facts
- Length
- 6.7 km · 4.2 mi (DOC route geometry)
- Source
- NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0)
- Difficulty
- Hard (7/10) (Advanced · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0))
- Typical time (DOC)
- 6 hr
- Official page
- doc.govt.nz/link/1e470d168a5a4624888ddde1967
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Canterbury
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route centre
- -42.4877, 172.2946
How it’s scored
Hard (7/10). Official rating: Advanced · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0).
A score is omitted when we do not have an official rating or enough measured length and elevation gain to compute one. Nothing is guessed. Read the NPS method: https://www.nps.gov/shen/planyourvisit/how-to-determine-hiking-difficulty.htm
Hikers can rate difficulty from 1 to 10 (1 = flat, short, easy walk for anyone; 3 = gentle hills, a little effort; 5 = moderate climbs, some fitness needed; 7 = steep or long, solid fitness required; 10 = extremely strenuous or technical; long steep climbing; experienced hikers only). The community average is shown once at least 3 people have rated the trail; until then the official or computed score is used when we have one.