Giant’s Castle Traverse

ghaznavid wrote: Around the Corner Pass (the local variation route on Corner Pass) is a bit of an anomaly. I am not sure if I should include it under phase 1 or 3, but more on that to follow.

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So with that – Corner Pass had fallen and phase 1 of Project Giant’s Castle was complete.

Kind of forgot to finish my thought on that point...

So Around the Corner Pass has a clear trail, and even if it is barely (if at all) used by hikers, it is still a definite and defined pass at Giants Castle and accordingly I declare phase 1 incomplete. Although that provides me with an excuse to go and do more hiking

The majority of the Northern Gully and the entirety of the Eastern Gully are at Lotheni by the defined boundaries, so those can stay on the backburner for the moment - but they are on my radar, seeing as Project Lotheni has not been conclusively ruled out as a future project...

That's not the Red Wall Falls. They are in the next valley to the north. This stream is the one that runs down the valley in front of Injasuti Summit cave. See Tony Marshall's report and pictures of his hike up Corner Pass.

BobbyStanton wrote: That's not the Red Wall Falls. They are in the next valley to the north. This stream is the one that runs down the valley in front of Injasuti Summit cave. See Tony Marshall's report and pictures of his hike up Corner Pass.

Anyone have an official name for this waterfall? Perhaps Injisuthi Falls?

Also looks very high - probably about 400m? Anyone got anything more conclusive than contour lines on Google Maps?

After going up corner pass, how sensible would you say trying to come down corner pass is? would rope be required?

Lets put it this way - I am very happy we didn't come down it in Jan!

You would need a rope to pass packs down, I don't think there's much to anchor a rope for abseiling off though. I wouldn't want to downclimb it, but I'm sure it can be done.

Awesome writeup. Thanks for sharing!!

Great writeup, thank you! It looks like you almost had a Brocken spectre there with that rainbow in the clouds?

firephish, we once come down Corner Pass in the rain with a 3m ski rope. Not advisable. There were some inexperienced people in the party, and we had to body-belay them down. The last guy then has to solo it, although he can be spotted. The scrambles are more doable when dry, I guess, but it is a really uncomfortable place to hurt yourself.

Viking wrote: My view from Ghaz's pic of me "sleeping"!

@Viking: darn - we forgot to get the shot of what our shoes looked like by the end of it.

The route was tough on our shoes - especially the top of Giant's Pass (before we lost the path). It has plenty of loose gravel and scree.