by Ralph Pina | Feb 15, 2021 | kloofing, Limietberg Nature Reserve
When Paul suggested a lockdown escape to Cascades in Du Toitskloof, with a little abseiling involved, I thought it a decent idea. I knew that the MCSA often scrambled up it and abseiled down the next day. My conclusion was that if you can scramble up it, it... 
by Ralph Pina | Feb 10, 2020 | kloofing, Limietberg Nature Reserve
Mountain man, Paul Verhoeven, has been the de facto custodian of my adventure bucket list, although he is unlikely to know this. It was he who pointed out the gaps in my admittedly-very-short list of abseil adventures, and insisted that the popular kloofing trips on... 
by Ralph Pina | Aug 26, 2019 | Kruger National Park, safari travel, trails, wilderness trail
Kruger National Park This was my third or fourth Wolhuter Trail since the late nineties, but it was like no other. The anti-poaching ¨war¨ has changed the atmosphere in the park. It is like we are clinging on to a century-old, island model of conservation that is... 
by Ralph Pina | May 5, 2019 | hiking, Hottentots Holland Nature Reserve
Recently I have been stalking the Cape Town – Elgin heritage steam train on Saturdays to shoot drone video as it winds its way up Sir Lowry´s Pass – sometimes without success either because of excessive wind or arriving either too early or too late for the... 
by Ralph Pina | Apr 11, 2019 | cycling, Towerkop Nature Reserve
Why refer to our truncated, private annual cycle tour as a ¨para¨ cycle tour? Around the braai fire at our pre-tour campsite at Towerkraaltjie, we came to the joint realisation that almost all of us were nursing or recovering from some physical injury or other, not...
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