Report Back: Saturday 23rd March: Silvermine South-East

Saturday 23 March: Silvermine South-East

View from Kalk Bay Peak

Although it had unexpectedly rained earlier in the morning, after all this is Cape Town! and more looked possible, this did not deter about 50 runners from both TM Trailers and Tim's longer faster group turning out.  But more snags along the way as by 0710 about 30 cars were queued at the Silvermine SE boom ready to enter but no warden was in sight.

So with access still denied by 0720  it was agreed to shift the start of all the runs to the Sunbird Centre.   Fortunately that boom was not down so eventually all the groups were able to set off over slightly revised routes.
Tim's group were the first to leave and were last seen streaking up the trail, presumably attempting to make up the time lost due to the delayed start?

One of the Proteas seen

Richard being no stranger to this area took the main group off and around dead man's path and up onto Kalk bay peak,  seeing a few proteas along the way and eventually overtook the recovery group, which had followed a more direct route, along the trail past the ominous looking Tartus cave.

Richard leading the Main Group

Dawn and Ralph looking out towards Simon'sTown

Combined group photo

Route taken by Main Group

Lauren Tarling

Overall a good run along one of our most scenic routes no problems but for the missing boom keeper and Michael who injured his foot.

Many thanks to Richard for leading and Gae for sweeping the main group and congratulations to Lauren who completed her 25th sortie and received her Red Tee for her effort.

Fay reported that her walking group also had a wonderful sortie