From Upper Deception Hut to Morrisons Footbridge via Goat Pass route
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Distance: 11.6 km (4.5 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Moderate terrain
Altitude: 298m to 740m. Gain: 5m. Loss: 447m . Gradient: 2 deg (Gentle)
Skills: - Prolonged rivers (4/6)
GPX info source: Drawn on map

Below Upper Deception Hut the track continues beside the river for a short distance, crossing a few times, until you reach broad gravel flats. From here to the confluence with the Otira travel is down the riverbed and banks, crossing frequently. The route is poled. In normal flows the river should be knee deep but it will rise after rain and will become impassible in high flows.

Shortly before the Otria Kanuka scrub appears on flats beside the river and the track becomes marked and cut, first on the true left, later the true right. It runs through a final section of bush to emerge at the Morrisons Bridge.

Created by: Madpom on 2017-04-13. Experienced: 2017-03-06
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