Epic Day Hikes
29 May 2012 12:49 #54127
by Selous
Replied by Selous on topic High Berg Day Hikes
Nice one Stijn
Thats a really long one. Would you go over Ndumeni Dome? A few years back I Didn't find the path at dusk that seems to exist up there on a GT to Ndumeni Caves and eventually had to go round Ndumeni Dome and Pick my way around up a long valley to the right of Yoddlers Cascades.
On the subject of some lekker epics day walks, is a walk from Sani Top Chalets to Giants Castle camp and you include Thaba Nthlenyana. It is fun because of the start point and once you leave Thaba Nthlenyana you enter quite a long valley and you are able to pick up a fairly good pace. My records tell me it was 57km and we did the last 10km in the dark. The only problem is the logistic side.
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Selous
Thanks for the link.
Selous
Thats a really long one. Would you go over Ndumeni Dome? A few years back I Didn't find the path at dusk that seems to exist up there on a GT to Ndumeni Caves and eventually had to go round Ndumeni Dome and Pick my way around up a long valley to the right of Yoddlers Cascades.
On the subject of some lekker epics day walks, is a walk from Sani Top Chalets to Giants Castle camp and you include Thaba Nthlenyana. It is fun because of the start point and once you leave Thaba Nthlenyana you enter quite a long valley and you are able to pick up a fairly good pace. My records tell me it was 57km and we did the last 10km in the dark. The only problem is the logistic side.
Regards
Selous
Thanks for the link.
Selous
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29 May 2012 13:24 #54129
by Stijn
Replied by Stijn on topic High Berg Day Hikes
@mnt_tiska - Roland's would be at the 21km mark which makes the Sunday too long on a Winter's day especially since we would still have to drive back to Joburg.
Schoongezicht at the 35km mark could be an option, just not sure how long Xeni Pass would take with a light load? Is 3-4 hours plausible?
@Selous - Woah! That's a beeeg day...
You're starting to talk traverse record distances there. Have you ever considered putting in an attempt?
Schoongezicht at the 35km mark could be an option, just not sure how long Xeni Pass would take with a light load? Is 3-4 hours plausible?
@Selous - Woah! That's a beeeg day...
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30 May 2012 06:18 - 30 May 2012 06:19 #54140
by intrepid
Take nothing but litter, leave nothing but a cleaner Drakensberg.
Replied by intrepid on topic Re: Epic Day Hikes
@Selous: I was considering leaving your thread as is, but after reading through the Epic Day Hike thread again I see there is quite a bit of overlap, so I've moved everything here and this will remain the official thread.
Good areas for this kind of thing are Giants Castle, Garden Castle and Bushman's Neck. They all have numerous passes that can be combined in different ways.
At the end of April I did a day hike up to Champagne Castle. There was a discussion elsewhere on the forum a while back about how feasible it was and I wanted to try it, and my brother-in-law really wanted to summit the peak. So we did it via Gray's Pass. We started off with the Khulu right above Nkosazana Cave and worked our way along that high ridge, knocking off the 3300m+ Khulus, including Champagne Castle, and circled right around to Gray's again. The hike was 45km in total. We did start and end in the dark but that was planned. We were not running, just walked.
We were tempted to go down Ships Prow Pass but wisely decided not to on that particular day. We are now planning an attempt to go up Grays and down Ships Prow in a day though, since he can't seem to let the idea go
Cowl Pass in a day is also on the agenda.
Good areas for this kind of thing are Giants Castle, Garden Castle and Bushman's Neck. They all have numerous passes that can be combined in different ways.
At the end of April I did a day hike up to Champagne Castle. There was a discussion elsewhere on the forum a while back about how feasible it was and I wanted to try it, and my brother-in-law really wanted to summit the peak. So we did it via Gray's Pass. We started off with the Khulu right above Nkosazana Cave and worked our way along that high ridge, knocking off the 3300m+ Khulus, including Champagne Castle, and circled right around to Gray's again. The hike was 45km in total. We did start and end in the dark but that was planned. We were not running, just walked.
We were tempted to go down Ships Prow Pass but wisely decided not to on that particular day. We are now planning an attempt to go up Grays and down Ships Prow in a day though, since he can't seem to let the idea go
Cowl Pass in a day is also on the agenda. Take nothing but litter, leave nothing but a cleaner Drakensberg.
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30 Jul 2012 04:50 #54714
by Stijn
Replied by Stijn on topic Re: Epic Day Hikes
Nice! Looking forward to it 
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30 Jul 2012 07:44 #54715
by kliktrak
Yeehaa was mega mountain madness...we seem to be conissieurs of ending in the moonlight... 
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ghaznavid wrote: Myself, Richard (Kliktrak) and Mike (same group as the last hike ) just did an epic 28km 13 hour day hike up Thaba Ngwangwe, hike writeup to follow shortly...
Yeehaa
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30 Jul 2012 08:39 #54718
by ghaznavid
Replied by ghaznavid on topic Re: Epic Day Hikes
Ok
the hike report is up 
It was quite funny - we arrived back at Silverstreams at about 7:15PM, I checked my back pack to see what food I had left over and found it was basically a few bar ones and a packet of chips, basically no water or food left at the end - no wonder my pack was so light
It was quite funny - we arrived back at Silverstreams at about 7:15PM, I checked my back pack to see what food I had left over and found it was basically a few bar ones and a packet of chips, basically no water or food left at the end - no wonder my pack was so light
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