Garry River Track (Missing Link Track)

I finally got to walk this track a couple of weeks ago on my trip from Christchurch to Hokitika. I could not find a marked (taped) turnoff on the northern end of this track, but the following picks it up. Follow the bushedge SW along the south side of the clearing on pt1046. Swing south with the bushedge and descend the start of the spur dropping due south. The clearing ends and you travel south through beech for a bit to emerge into a 2nd scrubbier clearing. Follow the proto-spur due south through this clearing to where orange tape marks the start of track on the bushedge on the spur on the southern side. From here a good-ish cut track drops to the Garry. Follow orange tape down on loose rock-scree in mature bush. Ignore pink tape which deviates off the marked tape half-way down. A small terrace 30m above the Garry offers hope of campspots, but the valley floor is a steep sharp V and no camping is possible. The track up the south face starts 50m upriver from that down the northern face. Broad and well cut, marked with old permolat and new tape. Climbs very steeply at first, becoming merely steep later. Finally emerges onto the blowhard track at a clearly visible but unmarked junction 20m east of the trig on pt797. Continued from https://tramper.nz/?view=topic&id=8639