5 Must do in the Berg
20 Feb 2009 10:46 #327
by intrepid
I like your thinking Magan, and your list is great. I'm having difficulties keeping it to 5!
Currently I would say:
1) Bell Traverse (have to agree strongly with you there - it was my first overnight hike in the Berg and got me as hooked as I am)
2) Climb Cathedral Peak
3) Grand Traverse (Mafadi and Thabana Ntlenyana must be part of it)
4) Spend a night in Roland's Cave
5) Curl up in your sleeping bag and endure a ferocious storm in a well-protected cave
Take nothing but litter, leave nothing but a cleaner Drakensberg.
Replied by intrepid on topic Re:5 Must do in the Berg
I like your thinking Magan, and your list is great. I'm having difficulties keeping it to 5!Currently I would say:
1) Bell Traverse (have to agree strongly with you there - it was my first overnight hike in the Berg and got me as hooked as I am)
2) Climb Cathedral Peak
3) Grand Traverse (Mafadi and Thabana Ntlenyana must be part of it)
4) Spend a night in Roland's Cave
5) Curl up in your sleeping bag and endure a ferocious storm in a well-protected cave
Take nothing but litter, leave nothing but a cleaner Drakensberg.
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20 Feb 2009 11:28 #328
by Stijn
Replied by Stijn on topic Re:5 Must do in the Berg
1) Manxome Pass (no bias there 
)
2) Have a harmonica jamming session with the Basothos
3) Cram 14 people into an Isodome in mid-winter for a card game
4) Climb the Angus Leppan route on the Sentinel
5) Ice Climbing at Giant's Castle
OK so I still have to do the last 2...
)2) Have a harmonica jamming session with the Basothos
3) Cram 14 people into an Isodome in mid-winter for a card game
4) Climb the Angus Leppan route on the Sentinel
5) Ice Climbing at Giant's Castle
OK so I still have to do the last 2...
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20 Feb 2009 14:23 - 20 Feb 2009 14:46 #330
by intrepid
Take nothing but litter, leave nothing but a cleaner Drakensberg.
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Thanks for the rights!
6) Like it or not, the smugglers are a significant part of the Berg and they've gotta be experienced firsthand. Watch rush hour coming down the Camel in the afternoons, or see a donkey train of dagga heading down Rockeries Pass.
7) Sit on the escarpment edge with the clouds below you and the peaks sticking out - preferably in time to see the sun rise through the clouds.
8) Understand what the fuss is all about with howling winds that literally push you over (and have you crawling up passes )
9) Enjoy the silence of a lofty summit only to hear the rushing sound of a lammergeyer or vulture gliding close by.
10) Seeing Stijn extended the "must do" list to a "to do" list, it seems Devils Tooth is a "trophy classic" for those that climb.
Oh, and one should see San rock art too.
This is one of the most enjoyable threads, thanks guys! Stijn, so what was the design capacity of that tent?
6) Like it or not, the smugglers are a significant part of the Berg and they've gotta be experienced firsthand. Watch rush hour coming down the Camel in the afternoons, or see a donkey train of dagga heading down Rockeries Pass.
7) Sit on the escarpment edge with the clouds below you and the peaks sticking out - preferably in time to see the sun rise through the clouds.
8) Understand what the fuss is all about with howling winds that literally push you over (and have you crawling up passes
)9) Enjoy the silence of a lofty summit only to hear the rushing sound of a lammergeyer or vulture gliding close by.
10) Seeing Stijn extended the "must do" list to a "to do" list, it seems Devils Tooth is a "trophy classic" for those that climb.
Oh, and one should see San rock art too.
This is one of the most enjoyable threads, thanks guys! Stijn, so what was the design capacity of that tent?
Take nothing but litter, leave nothing but a cleaner Drakensberg.
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20 Feb 2009 15:48 #332
by Stijn
Replied by Stijn on topic Re:5 Must do in the Berg
intrepid wrote:
3 - and the game we were playing involved swapping seating positions after every round... -10 degrees outside, +30 degrees inside
Here's another one:
6) Running across to the helicopter landing on the Cathedral Peak shoulder to beg a lift for a member in our party who had just sprained her knee. After blank stares from pilot and passengers, realising that you look and smell like you've been in the mountains for 6 days and you just war-painted your face with mud that morning.
Admittedly, that one could be a little difficult to experience again.
Stijn, so what was the design capacity of that tent?
3 - and the game we were playing involved swapping seating positions after every round... -10 degrees outside, +30 degrees inside
Here's another one:
6) Running across to the helicopter landing on the Cathedral Peak shoulder to beg a lift for a member in our party who had just sprained her knee. After blank stares from pilot and passengers, realising that you look and smell like you've been in the mountains for 6 days and you just war-painted your face with mud that morning.
Admittedly, that one could be a little difficult to experience again.
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23 Feb 2009 14:30 #337
by fatshark
Replied by fatshark on topic Re:5 Must do in the Berg - Have done in the berg
great list, chaps!
1 - get thoroughly lost in thick mist and snow on the summit because you left the compass behind. If you still get your dumb ass out in time before mountain rescue gets called, you'll feel invincible...
2 - catch a wild trout on fly close to the main Berg (or on the summit, but that's still a must-do)
3 - swim/bathe in mid-winter in that little pool at the top of tugela falls (there must be a thick rim of ice around the edge of the pool - and my wife wonders why we have no kids yet
)
4 - fry up a full English brekkie on your camp stove: bacon, eggs, sausages, mushies, tomato, the works - in full view of all the other clowns trying to swallow their lukewarm Oatsoeasy (for best results do it on a long weekend at Mont-aux-Sources)
5 - climb the chain ladder at night (stars, lights over qwa qwa...) in winter without gloves...
1 - get thoroughly lost in thick mist and snow on the summit because you left the compass behind. If you still get your dumb ass out in time before mountain rescue gets called, you'll feel invincible...
2 - catch a wild trout on fly close to the main Berg (or on the summit, but that's still a must-do)
3 - swim/bathe in mid-winter in that little pool at the top of tugela falls (there must be a thick rim of ice around the edge of the pool - and my wife wonders why we have no kids yet
)4 - fry up a full English brekkie on your camp stove: bacon, eggs, sausages, mushies, tomato, the works - in full view of all the other clowns trying to swallow their lukewarm Oatsoeasy (for best results do it on a long weekend at Mont-aux-Sources)
5 - climb the chain ladder at night (stars, lights over qwa qwa...) in winter without gloves...
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