Cross kopje

Start:  1:15
Number of people: 15
Leader: Jenny
Location: S 17° 31.237 E 031° 13.418

The walk was divided up into two different walks, jenny leading the medium to high impact walk which was to Cross Kopje and Barbara leading a low impact walk to a different part of the walk. So for cross Kopje walk there were about 6 of us on the walk and the rest went with Barbara on the low impact walk.

The tower that has been erected 

The last time that i was on this walk was last year and they were doing some blasting. So walking up this time is was clear what had been done with all the blasting. They have now erected a cell tower just behind the cross and the road that leads up to it. So for the most part, we followed the road up and only at certain parts did we bush wack.

Once we were up, the view is stunning as always and the air conditioning turned on perfectly :)

On our way up there was threat of a thunder shower in the distance, but luckily all that we felt of it was a few drops.

Bambazoko

Number of walkers : 6
This was an exploratory walk. The mountain we climbed was. Just a bit further than gandimi. Took us little while to figure out which one it was, but with the help of GPS and the good old map, we found the correct one.
The climb up was quite steep, but the view amazing as always.

Gairezi expedition part 2

Hi all,

This is the Gairezi Expedition part 2 from Trevor Volker, follow the link to read.

Gairezi Expedition Part 2

If you missed the first one, then follow this link

Gairezi Expedition Part 1

Gandimi

Well this is the first post for the new year, and hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and new year!

Saturday 21 January
Number of participants: 16
Meeting Point: Tree Tops restaurant
Leader: Annadore Smith


we left treetops restaurant at 13:30 and the trip to gandimi was about a 30min drive out on the shamva road and then turned left at a small shop, which changes to dirt road. We proceeded to take this road for about 5 - 10 min and arrived at our starting point.

Our Starting point

 After getting our things together, we then proceeded up the mountainside. The walk up to the cave was quite steep. Once arriving at the cave we discovered some bush man paintings, with elephant, kudu, and people. They were not very prominent and one had to really look to see them as they were very faded, and the main was was drawn right underneath the place where the water ran down from the above rock.

After the small break there, we proceeded to make our way to the summit of Gandidmi. This part of the walk was very steep so it was slow going from the cave on out. After a lot of huffing and puffing, we reached a view point which was close to the summit.

Close to the summit

View over farm lands

 We then continued onto the summit. Once there we enjoyed the view and watched the rain pour down in a different area. We were a bit worried that we would get wet, as the storm was blowing our way, but it seemed to miss us as we were on our way back down.

Summit beacon