Guess where?

@Intrepid: are you posting another one or should I put something of great ambiguity up?

Here is a tough one, which river is this? It is very distinctive to those who have been there. Your clue is that on the map it is marked "bridge"



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Ok, lets go with a slightly clearer photo of "bridge":

That's the crossing of the Hidden Valley river on the Giant's Cup Trail. Not sure what the actual river is called though..

Andrew and I were doing a 6-day hike in the Southern Berg and our last day was from Sleeping Beauty Cave to Bushman's Nek. We were planning to go over the little berg ridge and drop into the valley to join up with the Giant's Cup Trail but the terrible weather (rain rain rain) had us hiking (swimming) down to Drakensberg Gardens and starting the Giant's Cup trail from there instead. In the thick mist, we didn't notice the fork a few km into the trail (who needs to navigate when on a hiking trail anyway? ) and only realised our error some 6km further East on the ridge above the Garden Castle valley - a gap in the mist revealed several trout dams which didn't seem right at all. Correcting this and increasing our pace big time, we finally got to the bridge in the photo above and slogged onwards through the rain and mist to Bushman's Nek for a 30-odd km day. Magan always uses this story as a counter to my chirps about him managing to turn Langalibalele Pass into a rock pass with some similarly stellar navigation!

Somewhat more flooded in this photo (Jan 2006):

Yup, Stijn should be correct on all accounts having crossed that bridge on my Saddle / Mzimude Passes hike last Nov. My crossing was over less troubled waters
Nice pic by Andrew. Compared to Popple's pics u can almost feel the force of the river in full flow and see the rain droplets on the grass.

nice one Stijn, here i think i'm putting up a tough one... I also took this attempting Mzimude pass during november last year...

@Megan: hey, don't bash my photo, its not my fault the river wasn't as flooded when i was there...

If Intrepid does not mind i will add another image.

I don't know the name, but unless my eyes are messed after listening to UNISA lecturers for the last 2 days, its that peak on the southern side of the Mashai river just before sleeing beauty cave, refer to the following photo for a different angle: