backpacking
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One More Off the Bucket List — Mt Pieter Botte
Twenty-two hikers were invited. Five of us turned up. Add heavy rain, slippery boulders, a 12kg pack and two supposedly non-drowsy antihistamines, and Mt Pieter Botte became exactly the kind of adventure I should have known better than to enjoy.
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I Hiked Lambs Head in My Socks
I’d climbed Lambs Head before, so I thought I knew what I was getting into. I didn’t. What followed was a hike involving bad shoes, wet socks, relentless rain—and a rather different lesson in endurance.
Stories Along the Way 