Feedback: Sat 25 May

The run-leader Piero Granelli reports:

We had a great run through the Cecilia and Kirstenbosch area on Saturday.

We started from Constantia Nek with an relatively easy downhill warm-up heading towards the Cecilia car park.  Then uphill to Kirstenbosch where we stopped to admire the sunrise over the Hottentots Mountains above the mist over the Cape Flats all the way through to Bishopscourt below us.  Keeping above the Dam we followed the Kirstenbosch paths to the Smuts Track and turned up the Skelton Gorge route just as far as the contour path. Then left past Nursery Ravine and Vaalkat Buttress.  Feeling strong and in good spirits we took the steep climb up through Rooikat Ravine to the Cecilia Waterfall (part of the second stage of the Table Mountain Challenge).  We arrived in slightly less good spirits, but everyone agreed it was worth it!   From the waterfall we headed up and over the Spilhaus Ridge to join the road from the top dams down to Constantia Nek.  The whole route was in lovely sunshine and just as we reached the car park the mist and rain rolled in.  Covered about 11km in 1hr50.


With thanks to Jane le Roux and Lorraine Nevin for photos