Friday, November 28, 2014

THE DEVILS IN THE DETAIL

PERFECT DAY ON THE MOUNTAIN
In my books every day's a perfect day on the mountain... but last Saturday was kind of nice!!! It been sometime since I spent any time on Devils Peak so a little run was planned: 06h30 from UCT... Ake was/is in Wales, Will was sick, Eddie was on Baby duty, Katya was working, Richard went home, Bernie had no transport, Elske's moved to Somerset West, and Ian to the USA...

Lucky for me...

MARIE WAS IN...
So from UCT we headed up to Rhodes Mem and onto the gravel roads to round the base of Devils before taking the single tracks up to the saddle. We could have stayed on the Oceans trail route and rounded Devils on the top contor, but...

Today was Devils day, so up we went...

THE LAST TIME I WENT UP!
Unlike the last time I went up there wasn't a cloud in the sky of even a breath of wind...

WE MADE IT UP

At 1000m it's enough of a climb to get amazing views of the city... Since we didn't have brealfast with us we had to head down as time was marching on...

ON THE WAY DOWN
We didn't head back the way we have come, but headed through the saddle (the path needs a bit of clearing) to "climb" down Newlands Ravine...

HIDDEN BY THE BUSHES
3h15 of running later we had covered only 20km but with more than 1200m of climb and plenty of bushes to fight no-one was complaining!

This weekend: VLAKENBERG

3 comments:

  1. What a wonderful place to run. Love that report, wish I'd been there.....

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  2. That's no easy climb either. Looks like a very challenging run.

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  3. Wow that is some climb, and great views too.

    Thanks for the mile warmup tips, I'll let you know how it goes when I give the all out effort a go!

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