Photo Comp, Jul-Sep 2015: Fire

Hi Smurf,

Not working on my side, I clicked (both left and right) on the image and nothing is happening. Not sure on how to get the link going, so will upload the image and tell the story.

Smurf edit:
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We did a hike in the Injasuthi area last year August. As we went up the Trojan wall towards UIC we saw a lot of smoke in the valley below. Later that afternoon we were watching the fire spread accross a large part of the lower Berg and advancing towards up. I took the photo with my cellphone (hence the poor quality image) from the cave. Our concern was the next day as we went down Leslies pass. There was a lot of smoke all the way down, and at the bottom we were walking pass still burning sections. Lots of smoking trees closer to Injasuthi camp. Apparently somebody set the rubbish dump in camp alight and this fire then raced up towards the escarpment. The camp staff actually had to pull some cars away from the edge of the parking area with a tractor for fear they would be set alight. From the cave that night we could see this long golden line burning all along the top of the lower berg. Beautiful, but scary!

Interesting shot.

Hi Smurf
I can't seem to get my pic into the gallery either, please help!
Here's my entry


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Smurfatefrog wrote: Hi Roger

I have added instructions in the first post, see if that works for you.
I'd rather you uploaded it yourself so it comes up as a "Papa Dragon" image rather than mine

Thanks Merv, sorted!

My entry is "Smoky Starling" (because Thaba Ngwangwe is Zulu for "the mountain of the Pied Starling")


Taken at Bushman's Nek in July last year on a hike with Fitness and Hobbit. There was a massive fire in Lesotho behind Thaba Ngwangwe that Friday. We slept in Bushman's Cave and woke up to a beautiful clear morning. We went on to do Saddle Nek Pass that day, slept in Mzimude Cave and came down Mzimude Pass the following morning. We used a rather steep grassy gully to get back from the ridge south of the Hidden Valley.

Funny enough - myself and Kliktrak were back on that ridge this weekend. Hike writeup to follow some time soon.

My other contender was Fiery Dog - but I opted not to go with this one. Taken in winter last year when myself and Hobbit tried to do Mlambonja Pass as a day hike, only to be turned back by a large fire:


The fire raging about an hour before the above photo:

After descending Ships Prow Pass, we were hiking along the Contour Path towards Blind Man’s Corner, and passed the Monk’s Cowl Fire Team who were block burning the ridge above the Contour Path between Cowl Fork and Blind Man’s Corner. Champagne Castle, Monk’s Cowl and Cathkin Peak are in the background.



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