Second day of the MCSA Agtertafelberg meet. It was very warm in the old down bag with inner liner and long thermal underwear, but it was a long night of many turn overs and uncomfortable legs from the efforts of the previous day. Still, I got enough sleep and felt fine in the morning, getting up once daylight came.
The morning eastern skyline from our camp.
This was our communal cooking/dining area of the previous night where some of the group are now waiting for their coffee.
You don't get a better hiking campsite than this one on the edge of the Winterberg lakes at 1400m altitude.
This is what our "lake" looks like, with these amazing restio "islands" in the shallow water.
What a place to camp!
On our way again, having a look a the second lake just around the corner to the north.
We dropped some of packs/loads at a return point, then descended steeply to the Tafelberg nek followed by a rough, tough, long climb to the summit. No photos on the way up - it was hard work!
View from the top, with the clouds rolling in.
We added our names to the notebook register in a little canister under a rock next to the beacon. No one had been there since May 2014.
Mike Hall and I, with Wemmershoek dam far down below.
Our snack/lunch stop was a short way down, where we found some shelter from the biting wind.
Down down down - no path or cairns. Looking for the best line down and hoping to not be confronted by any rock cliffs.
Eventually we reached the hut with the sun almost setting. We had a cosy night here and hiked out to the cars in steady drizzle the next morning.
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