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Andrew Hagen commented on Andrew Hagen's blog post 'Berg record full trip report'
Andrew P makes a good point about being familiar with the route. Stijn and I had the advantage of having a mental picture of the whole thing from previous hikes (except for Jarateng Valley), including a "normal" Grand Traverse a few years ago. Mak...
September 21
Andrew Porter commented on Andrew Hagen's blog post 'Berg record full trip report'
Hi Shaun One thing I would recommend is a training trip or two to the berg before the event. Get to the top and complete part of the route with a pack similar to that planned for the trip, and at a similar pace. You get to see a few of the finer ...
September 21
Andrew Hagen commented on Andrew Hagen's blog post 'Berg record full trip report'
Yup. Agree 100% with Stijn. I'm very happy with how we approached it, especially mentally, since we started talking about it only a month before and thus had little time to physically prepare. As Stijn says, if we had planned this from further ou...
September 11
Stijn Laenen commented on Andrew Hagen's blog post 'Berg record full trip report'
Hi Shaun The major thing I would have done differently is trained for longer in advance which would have resulted in better conditioning and maybe the ability to sustain a running pace here and there. Ours was a last-minute "let's go for it" and ...
September 10
Shaun Hadfield commented on Andrew Hagen's blog post 'Berg record full trip report'
Hi Andrew, First of all congrats on breaking the recorded. Mat and I have been contemplating on taking on your recorded for the last couple of months. We have finally racked up enough courage to start planning trip and are looking at trying to br...
September 10
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Gary Mortimer commented on Andrew Hagen's blog post 'Berg record full trip report'
Top notch, well done.
April 8
Andrew Hagen commented on Gary's blog post 'April fools'
Well, for our plan there was only Easter Cave for night 1, which was excellent. If you do a longer day, you could get to Roland's Cave or the Ndumeni Caves (about 58km if memory serves). I guess we could have gone off route and used Injasuti Summi...
March 25

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At 9:29am on January 26, 2009, Duncan souchon said…
excellent..all done
At 4:19pm on January 23, 2009, Duncan souchon said…
Hi Andrew
Read about your Drakensberg Traverse Record. Well done! I have included on the Superport climbing/trekking site www.superclimb.co.za, of which I am the webmaster. Pls read and tell me if you okay with it, and pls tell Stijn Laenen i used one of his images. i have credited him, but pls let me know if its okay
best wishes
Duncan Souchon
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Berg record full trip report

Crossing the Dragon's Back in Record Time

The record for the Grand Traverse of the Drakensberg has stood for nearly ten years, since Gavin and Lawrie Raubenheimer set a time of four days, nine hours and thirty-nine minutes for the 210km from Sentinel car park to Bushman's Nek police station via six specified summits.

Something in the region of fifteen attempts were made to break the record, including an unofficial race in November 2008, which we skipped due to my hiking pal Stijn Laenen… Continue

Posted on January 21, 2009 at 6:33pm — 10 Comments

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Berg Record STATS!

Hey all

I see that some are keen for details of our traverse, so, in compliance with the Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000, here goes. Apologies for the lateness of this post.

The record itself:
Dates: 17-20/12/2008
Total time: 3d 9h 52m 52s
Total distance: 209km
Total ascent: 7810m
Total descent: 8515m
No running at all (alas)

Daily stats:
Day 1: Sentinel – Easter Cave, 45km, 1885m ascent, 10hr 44min
Day 2: Easter Cave – Mafadi south side, 50km, 2345m, 14hr 45min
Day 3:… Continue

Posted on January 20, 2009 at 10:18am — 3 Comments

 
 

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