Drakensberg Grand Traverse
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 127.04 mi
- Elevation gain
- 22,329 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Difficult
- Elevation loss
- 24,934 ft
- Max elevation
- 11,411 ft
- TrailRank
-
36
5
- Min elevation
- 5,804 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- 2 days 12 hours 29 minutes
- Coordinates
- 1942
- Uploaded
- August 24, 2011
- Recorded
- April 2010
near Bonjaneni, KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
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Itinerary description
It is a traverse of the Drakensberg that starts from the Sentinel Car Park perimeter fence and then stops at the Bushman’s Nek Border Post perimeter fence. Various checkpoints have to be visited along the way. These include:
• The Chain Ladders
• Mont-aux-Sources summit (3282m)
• Cleft Peak summit (3277m)
• Champagne Castle summit (3377m)
• Mafadi summit (3451m)
• Giant’s Castle summit (3314m)
• Thabana Ntlenyana summit (3482m)
• Thomathu Pass must be used to descend to Bushman’s Nek
The only other rules are that it needs to be entirely self-supported (i.e. no seconds, food caches or resupplies) and entirely on foot. GPS is allowed.
• The Chain Ladders
• Mont-aux-Sources summit (3282m)
• Cleft Peak summit (3277m)
• Champagne Castle summit (3377m)
• Mafadi summit (3451m)
• Giant’s Castle summit (3314m)
• Thabana Ntlenyana summit (3482m)
• Thomathu Pass must be used to descend to Bushman’s Nek
The only other rules are that it needs to be entirely self-supported (i.e. no seconds, food caches or resupplies) and entirely on foot. GPS is allowed.
Waypoints
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Bushman's Nek
Bushman's Nek - 206.5 km!
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Chain Ladders
Chain Ladders
Waypoint
11,070 ft
Champagne castle
09-APR-10 22:28:55
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Cleft Peak
Cleft Peak
Waypoint
10,879 ft
Giant's Castle
10-APR-10 13:27:20
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Mafadi
Mafadi - 92.81km
Waypoint
-0 ft
Mashai Saddle
Mashai Saddle
Waypoint
10,758 ft
Mont-aux-Sources
09-APR-10 5:52:01
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Awesome stuff! Must be one heck of an accomplishment to do this
excelent!
Well-done
How many KM did you in a day ?