by Ralph Pina | Aug 9, 2022 | hiking, Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve
Some recent excursions up the Rooiels valley had shown that an old trail joins up with an old jeep track that ascends out of the Palmiet valley. A relatively easy, though long, walk is thus possible from Rooiels to Oudebosch/Harold Porter Botanical Garden, or vice... 
by Ralph Pina | May 29, 2022 | hiking, Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve
As the name suggests, Klein Hangklip is a smaller replica of Hangklip peak located further south at Cape Hangklip. Hangklip is the sentinel east of False Bay’s entrance. In the age of sail, many a navigator mistook Hangklip for the Cape of Good Hope and ended up... 
by Ralph Pina | Apr 16, 2022 | hiking, Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve
I think we decided on the route for that day at breakfast. The only criterion was that we would walk from my house and not drive anywhere. Santie would be on a mission anyway: to log her 1200th species on iNaturalist. My previous hike up the Rooiels River valley had... 
by Ralph Pina | Jun 11, 2021 | hiking, Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve
The Kogelberg Trail is a circular, 24 km hiking trail in the Kogelberg Nature Reserve. Last weekend’s walk was fifth time that I have done it, as I remember. All the gradients are gradual, there is no exposure nor scrambles and the trail has few obstacles. It is... 
by Ralph Pina | Dec 7, 2020 | hiking, Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve
Studying satellite photos – on Google and Bing maps – of the mountains above Kogelbaai, I was able to discern a definite zig-zag path to the jeep track on the plateau north of Kogelberg Peak. So armed with a GPS waypoint for where the path leaves the...
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