Seweweekspoort Peak (highest peak in the Western Cape) - Up Northern Route and down the Southern Route
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 11.74 mi
- Elevation gain
- 5,338 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Difficult
- Elevation loss
- 6,214 ft
- Max elevation
- 7,564 ft
- TrailRank
- 34
- Min elevation
- 2,655 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- 10 hours 43 minutes
- Coordinates
- 3690
- Uploaded
- August 12, 2018
- Recorded
- August 2018
near Seweweekspoort, Western Cape (Republic of South Africa)
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Itinerary description
The weather forecast for the day was good, but once we were almost on top the clouds came in and it started snowing. Visibility was unfortunately zero, and without pre-loaded GPS data it would have been very difficult to find the trail down on the south side.
I hope this description and GPS data might help someone else.
The northern route is basically just straight forward up to the peak without a trail. The way down was a bit more difficult due to the snow and iced rocks, combined with scrambling and trail finding.
We had a coffee and lunch break in the cave. From there we kept on following the trail and GPS data down until we were out of the clouds and soon a real trail with plenty of beacons appeared.
We walked all the way to Gerrit's Farm who we had organized a pick up with the previous day to drop us back at our car.
I hope this description and GPS data might help someone else.
The northern route is basically just straight forward up to the peak without a trail. The way down was a bit more difficult due to the snow and iced rocks, combined with scrambling and trail finding.
We had a coffee and lunch break in the cave. From there we kept on following the trail and GPS data down until we were out of the clouds and soon a real trail with plenty of beacons appeared.
We walked all the way to Gerrit's Farm who we had organized a pick up with the previous day to drop us back at our car.
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