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Unnamed road 7:08 Up and up and up (for 9km)The hut on the hill To infinity...And beyond... (below)

jnroux

Arangieskop 2010

The hut on the hill

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Nov 13 2010, 01:54 PM

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jnroux
Somerset West, South Africa

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Dassieshoek, South Africa

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We reached the beautiful stone hut, our base-camp before summiting the next morning, at about 14:00. I was surprised at how fancy the hut was... it had electricity, double bunk beds and even warm water if you made some fire under the "donkie." Most of us did not wait for the "donkie" to warm up and we had refreshing cold showers. At about 5pm a tractor came up from the Koo valley side (not the Robertson side were we came from) and brought a number of tourists that disturbed our peaceful period of chillaxing. They walked into our house and even snooped around in our bedrooms upstairs... not cool. Luckily they did not stay long and soon after they left we started a game of Hackysack! It was a lot of fun, but also dangerous with Ileana targeting Pottie and not the hackysack (we would only learn the next day where she got the training for her lethal round-house kicks). After Jaco Mmmm kicked the hacky a record distance of 50m into the field, the hacky game was stopped due bad light (and bad behaviour). We then had another braai and got to bed at around 11pm. And again, some substantial snoring & giggling... (lucky no scaring or scarring).

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	5. And beyond... (below) Nov 14 2010, 09:22 AMDassieshoek, South Africa7 photos For the decent the hike was in some way broken down into various groups of people. In front, we formed a group of 5 formidable hikers: Riana & I, The Chris, Jaco Mmm and Ileana. The tail was bought in by the very patient Pottie... After about 5 minutes of down-hill and a story about the Boland...

	4. To infinity... Nov 14 2010, 08:49 AMDassieshoek, South Africa6 photos We started just after 8am the morning and reached the top of Arangieskop at 8:49! What an awesome view!

	3. The hut on the hill Nov 13 2010, 01:54 PMDassieshoek, South Africa4 photos We reached the beautiful stone hut, our base-camp before summiting the next morning, at about 14:00. I was surprised at how fancy the hut was... it had electricity, double bunk beds and even warm water if you made some fire under the "donkie." Most of us did not wait for the...

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