Rule No 1: You’ve got to like walking Rule No 2: If you look you won’t find. Nine times out of ten the snare finds you, you don’t find it. Twice yesterday I caught my foot and tugged before realising it was a low snare, but I have to say this was a first. Most … Continue reading
Unfortunately building up the snare collection over the last couple of months. Tragically not all empty. Two groupings, about 2 km apart, between Nyanga and the National Park. I have at times found the odd one or two when walking down to Nyanga over the last 5 years, but either I’m now better at finding … Continue reading
Another never-to-be-forgotten Nyanga day – going up Mount Muozi. I got a shika-shika from the rank in Nyanga to Chiramba which is where the road goes up to Bende Gap. Frustrated 2 hours in the sun before a fellow traveller found us a lift on an empty lorry going up to collect timber. The driver … Continue reading
Well they don’t come along like this one very often. This spot is above: Mt Melleray Mission School, Marist Brothers High School, and St Mary Magdalene’s High School. (Glinting at night in the 7th photo) Morning of day 4 and Mount Muozi bathes in the clouds. And while we’re on the subject of temperature inversions … Continue reading
More of a climb up than other routes perhaps – but look at the views from the escarpment! This was also a test of AI’s ‘more salt – less water’ doctrine, and it worked. Peanut butter and salt sandwich, with crisps and a boiled sweet every 30 mins – to replace the salt sweating out … Continue reading
A stretching 30km circular route between Troutbeck School and Nyanga, and back, while taking in the escarpment views from the westernmost point of Connemara (now called Eagles View on Googlemaps). At least the tough descent is done early! Apologies for the exaggerated vertical axis – it’s the Caltopo app.
Eastern Highlander 