The Maloti Drakensberg Transfrontier Challenge Blog
Running the Dragons Back higher and longer
Just how far is it.
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Permalink Reply by Stijn Laenen on -
Well the proof is in my Google track (207.5km)... also in my pre-google days, a string measurement on the maps gave about 200km which you can probably add a little to for kinks in paths which strings tend to miss ;-)
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Permalink Reply by Gary Mortimer on
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Of course when TWA finish we shall have their track! But that will contain several hundred metres of distance travelled whilst they were stopped and the GPS was jumping about a bit. Should be able to remove that I guess.
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Permalink Reply by Laura Forster on -
Not to mention the distance accumulated by e.g. arbing up wrong valleys and circumperambulating in the mist...
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Permalink Reply by Stijn Laenen on
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On our attempt, my GPS gave a reading of 100km up to Champagne Castle which is way more than the measurement I have of 80km. I've had big overreads with handheld GPS before though. Maybe got something to do with arm swinging as well?
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Permalink Reply by Bruce Arnett on -
By the time Andrew and I got to Mafadi the GPS was indicating a distance of about 2 Km more than Stijn's Google track up to that point.
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Permalink Reply by Laura Forster on
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It's from Witsieshoek to Bushman's Nek. The distance, however, is the least of the factors involved.
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