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@Papa Smurf
New thread for hiking. Once this pandemic subsides somewhat I'd like to go on a hike with you. As mentioned all my hiking buddies have either left Cape Town or got married with kids. I used to climb the Table Mountain range all the time, probably around 150-200 times. Did several mountains in the Klein Swartberge like Towerkop (twice), long multi day Cederberg hikes (twice) and so on.
Our hikes started to get riskier as we explored more routes on Table Mountain and eventually we decided to do a rock climbing course and get gear. That was fun for a while until I had a bad fall and tore the ligaments in an ankle. Since then I've developed a bit of fear for height exposure (regular hiking is fine, just the rope climbing bit).
Btw, any of you into Geocaching? I was somewhat instrumental in getting it going in SA. Back in 2000 GPS Selective Availability was turned off. Until then it was only accurate to 100m. With that the treasure hunting sport of Geocaching was invented. I read about it late 2000 and got a GPS early in 2001 and looked for the local caches. There were only two in the Cape, lol. I liked it so much I drove to Bloemfontein over a weekend to go find the three there. There was almost none other in the country. So I set out to promote the game, I organised the UCT professor that hid the one Cape Town cache to do interviews on the radio, the Bloem cacher published a booklet that I distributed to Cape Union Mart etc. I created and hid 29 caches, 10 still exist. The second cache I hid, and that still exists, has been found 1,312 times! Later we did "event caches", which is basically a braai + piss up. I very seldomly still do it unless there happens to be one nearly. I do want to go find the one at the Sandbaai beacon though. Geocaching is what got this geek out of the office/house into the mountains, until then I had never been up Table Mountain.
But first I need to get fitter. Upping the time on the treadmill starting this week.
New thread for hiking. Once this pandemic subsides somewhat I'd like to go on a hike with you. As mentioned all my hiking buddies have either left Cape Town or got married with kids. I used to climb the Table Mountain range all the time, probably around 150-200 times. Did several mountains in the Klein Swartberge like Towerkop (twice), long multi day Cederberg hikes (twice) and so on.
Our hikes started to get riskier as we explored more routes on Table Mountain and eventually we decided to do a rock climbing course and get gear. That was fun for a while until I had a bad fall and tore the ligaments in an ankle. Since then I've developed a bit of fear for height exposure (regular hiking is fine, just the rope climbing bit).
Btw, any of you into Geocaching? I was somewhat instrumental in getting it going in SA. Back in 2000 GPS Selective Availability was turned off. Until then it was only accurate to 100m. With that the treasure hunting sport of Geocaching was invented. I read about it late 2000 and got a GPS early in 2001 and looked for the local caches. There were only two in the Cape, lol. I liked it so much I drove to Bloemfontein over a weekend to go find the three there. There was almost none other in the country. So I set out to promote the game, I organised the UCT professor that hid the one Cape Town cache to do interviews on the radio, the Bloem cacher published a booklet that I distributed to Cape Union Mart etc. I created and hid 29 caches, 10 still exist. The second cache I hid, and that still exists, has been found 1,312 times! Later we did "event caches", which is basically a braai + piss up. I very seldomly still do it unless there happens to be one nearly. I do want to go find the one at the Sandbaai beacon though. Geocaching is what got this geek out of the office/house into the mountains, until then I had never been up Table Mountain.
But first I need to get fitter. Upping the time on the treadmill starting this week.