Distance: 2.0 km (0.5 DOC hours) - Benched track - Easy terrain
Altitude: 758m to 847m. Gain: 123m. Loss: 77m . Gradient: 6 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

Unknown (difficulty: 0/7)
Not specified

The Blowhard Track is a broad, well maintained easy-moderate mountainbike track and makes for fast, easy walking.

From the unmarked junction at Trig A9UM, the track runs west through beech forest and later clearings with patchy kanuka, climbing gently. A signpost marks the junction with the Bypass Track dropping south,

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

The Blowhard Track is a broad, well maintained easy-moderate mountainbike track and makes for fast, easy walking.

From the unmarked junction at Trig A9UM, the track runs east dropping gently though clearings and later beech forest. Trig A9UM is visible 10m off the track through beech trees. 20m later an obvious, but unsignposted track junction is reached where the Missing Link Track joins from the north,