If there has been one thing my old-man has been nagging us to do, it has been to climb the main berg and do a short traverse. I have always resisted. Firstly, there is the dreaded chain ladder, next there is the possibility that an overnight raid may leave you without hiking boots and lastly […]
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Four years ago when Big5Hike was born we were 20 hikers and many paying guests staying at The Cavern. That year we raised R103,000 in recognition of Megan’s late grandmother Ruth’s 103rd birthday. I distinctly remember us all sitting outside the cave bar drinking Flying Fish (as this was all we could get for free)
Dear Friends Easter marks a change in the seasons and we can certainly feel a nip in the air in the evenings. We have been blessed with beautiful rain this year and the streams are still flowing strongly and the mountainside is enticing. All this nourishing rain and good sunshine means that the grasses have
Dear Friends 2016 has been a year of challenges, uncertainty, tremendous fun, new adventures and a bit of consolidation. We have continued to work on upgrades at The Cavern and we are slowly getting through all 55 rooms and their bathrooms. We have a few tasks planned for the New Year, a bit of fundraising
Dear Friends It has been a busy few months. The July school holidays were great fun with plenty of hiking alongside terrific friends and families that had joined us in this special place in the hills. We then held our annual Christmas in July weekend and we all waited in anticipation as the cold front
South Africa’s Drakensberg range – the spectacular ‘Dragon Mountains’ – are a vertical rush of towering cliffs, flat-topped peaks and high-level walking trails Words and photography by Laurence Mitchell The landscape is unexpectedly green, a folded blanket of lush slopes that extend to vertiginous cliffs in the west. Pockets of dense woodland lie in the
Dear Friends April is a great month with holidays galore and then we move into marvellous May which is probably the best weather month in the whole of KZN. It is the month when the summer rains slow down (although we still need a bit more moisture before the winter) and the aloes come into
Dear Friends We are sweltering in the berg! What a hot Spring month we have endured with temperatures regularly in the 30’s. We do look forward to a bit of moisture in October and November because the rivers are very low and the earth parched. But, this lovely hot weather does mean that our new
Dear Friends Our Big5Hike weekend has happened and all seems to have passed very quickly! We are enormously grateful to each and every one of you for the support. Our weekend raffle winners were Brian McLintock and Anne Fraser. They have each won 2 nights for 2 in a superior suite including all meals, teas
