17.09 Cathedral Peak part 2: In the land of the Zulu Nation.
Autumn arrives in Natal as leaves fall. A view from our living room...not bad. Back on the hike, another look down a gorge as the colors rear up at us. A favorite scene as we watch the sun light up the area below the Cathkin group, including Monks Cowl. The trails in South Africa are tough. However, in all our hikes thus far, we have met but one small group of locals. We don’t know what it means but perhaps they know something we don’t. Could it be too much biltong, braaivleis and Chevrolet? After four hours, we crossed paths with a Canadian and his African trail guide. Once again, they were the only two people we saw all day on the mountains. Yet, we are never lonely. Says something about our editor. We had left the town of Winterton early in the morning, arriving at Cathedral Peak Hotel where we parked the car and set out to face this formidable mountain and her sisters . In our rush to get going and the fact that we had left the cottage in the dark, arriving af...