Rolands Cave

Hi everyone

Is there a GPS track for Thuthumi - Rolands - back down Camel? I want to take my cousin on a 'berg trip. At the moment, we are looking at Chain Ladders to Ifidi and back the next day... but damn the man, Rolands looks awesome.

Thanks

DarkwingDave wrote: Hi everyone

Is there a GPS track for Thuthumi - Rolands - back down Camel? I want to take my cousin on a 'berg trip. At the moment, we are looking at Chain Ladders to Ifidi and back the next day... but damn the man, Rolands looks awesome.

Thanks

Darkwing Dave. It's like a highway up there. So easy to follow. Check out Tony Marshals super write up of Organ Pipes/smugglers and Thuthumi Passes and you should have no hassels. If you go enjoy man.
Selous

Geordie wrote:

Just for interest sake, and for those who did not know (me included before this), Roland's cave can be seen from the Cathedral peak hotel. Not really with the naked eye, however with decent binoculars or camera zoom it looks like below:

Apply your Crop tool just to the right( Looking at the picture) of where your arrow starts and you should see the largest of the Ndumeni Upper Caves. ME thinks??

Thanks Geordie. Lets give it a bash.

As requested, photo cropped higher up and slightly to the right. The shadows makes it hard to discern caves from cubbies in the rock band. I do spot some definite candidates for a twin set of caves to the right hand side of the picture (looking at Ndumeni dome lower right hand side of rock wall).



Anyone, feel free to copy the photo onto your PC and make arrows, anyone who may know where to indicate.

Hope I've got this right, it's much easier to find the two Upper Ndumeni Caves when you're up there. The one on the right might be at the next possible position to the right in the rock band.

Above are two photos of the plaque in Rolands Cave. Photo one was taken in March 2012 and photo two was taken yesterday. Is this normal decay of the plaque or are people actually trying to scratch it out???

That's horrible. Looks like vandalism to me

While people are at it why don't they just dismantle the Carbineer's Graves. Very sad.

From berg.co.za:

History:

The cave is named after Roland, a member of the Mountain Club of South Africa. A plaque mounted on the wall of the cave in his honour bears the inscription "A man of the mountains and a mountain of a man". Please treat this cave with the respect it deserves as a memorial to a man considered worthy of such an epitaph.

seems unbelievable that someone who puts in the effort to get there would be capable of doing something like this? Although stranger things have happened ... ravens maybe?

This photo was taken in January 2013. And the damage looks the same as your second photo. So the damage was done between march 2012 and Jan 2013.
I doubt it's natural.

We will be going up to Rolands cave end of Feb. Can anybody tell me what it is made of them we can see if we can fix it in some or other way. Willing to carry supplies up if we know what to take with.