Lekker long easter!

@intrepid: Haha! Say WHAAAAAAT? How about you join us for a climb? For example Angus-Leppan which should happen around the 30th?

Got back from the 'berg last night after a 4 day hike in the Cathederal area. We were blesed with good weather, but the wind was a bit strong yesterday and the day before. Tseke pass was hell on the knees. Half the pass got washed away and to follow the path everywere was inposseble. So we had to bivi in the pass just under the Column. I have been down easier rock passes. My wife busted her knee up badly on the lower sections of the pass, but we got out and she will have it checked out today. But all in all it was a exelent trip. The view from Cleft peak was awsome. Could see everything from the Tooth to Monks Cowl. Cant wait to go back. On a side note. There is also a lot of pine trees on the lower sections of Tseke pass and the hut is in a bad state. No windows and the wood from the floor is used to close the windows. The structure is still sound. Will post some pics soon.

I dont know how resent it is, looks no older than a month in some places. This was the first time down it in about 6year and it changed a lot or i just navigated like my bum. I was also thinking of maybe doing some work on the hut. Maybe put polycarbonat windows in, and paint it to stop the rust. It would be a shame to see it go to wast, had fun times there after climbing trips in the area.

Returned yesterday day from a successful GT,the weather was very kind to us except for the days we summit-ed redi peak and Thabana-Ntlenyana when i experienced the strongest wind in the berg ever.

I was on the trip with Aux, totally agree it was a great trip in all:thumbsup: , however, Tseke was terrible:thumbsdown: !Any new paths that had been formed were mostly washed away which made the going very slow. Many areas were covered by fresh (less than one month), unstable, debris (boulders etc). Wasting events have removed much of the path forcing one in to the river bed, which is fairly unstable in places. The sides of the river are generally shear (up to ca.10m in some places), and also appear unstable, making access to the valley slopes tricky. With heavy rains I imagine this pass could change on a regular (near daily) basis. I would rather have walked up and down the Camel route all day than once down Tseke. I would suggest using another pass if possible, unless you enjoy unnecessary hardship and have a knee maintenance plan.
The image below shows the pass from near the contour path, around C8 I think. Probably the only view I will ever see of the pass again.

Battling to load the image...Ill get there...