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Created: 2020jul05sun
Updated: 2024may01wed
This site offers a list of South African, Western Cape, Garden Route hiking trails, arranged in increasing order of, primarily, relative-danger and, secondarily, relative-exertion ratings. Start at the top; work your way down, carefully, patiently.
Click on a trail name in the list here below, to open a new browser-tab/-page with more detailed statistics and information, including links to full-length, commentated YouTube-videos showing at least the most relevant sections of that particular trail, as well as downloadable .gpx files for your GPS device, shown with a paper-clip attachment icon at the bottom of the page, below the video.
Saasveld - Pepsi Pools
Kleinkrantz - Swartvlei Beach
Tierkloof Waterfall
Tierkop
Tierkop + Pepsi Pools
Kaaimans Weir/Pumphouse
Groeneweide Red + Silver River
Forest-Birding Hike
Old George Dam
Nature's Valley - Keurbooms Beach
George-Dam Swim
Camferskloofnek/-kop
Cross Sunset
Denne-oord - Pepsi Pools (Short)
The Link
Denne-oord Picnic
Losberg
Glentana Caves
"Outeniqua View", Venster- & Tolberg
Van Dalen's Peak Cave
Skyline Ridge East
George-Peak Circle, Anticlockwise
One of the simplest ways to view the .gpx route on a map, would be to upload the file to Maplorer's View GPX. On the other hand, one of the best ways to view the .gpx route, with many alternative options, would be to upload the file to GPSVisualiser's Make a Map. However, before the file can be uploaded from your device to these sites, it must first be downloaded, of course, from its webpage on this site to your device.
For consistency, all numerical data will be determined directly by means of, or derived from a Garmin eTrex 22x handheld GPS device. The data will eventually also all be adjusted according to the GPS Visualiser elevation-gain and noise-reduction tutorial.
Exertion and danger ratings are not presented on this site directly, because it's just too much effort to update the whole list, and all of the pages as well, with ever-changing, relative numbers, each and every single time the data for a new trail gets added, making the list even longer and more tedious for next time's editing. For the latest, actual exertion and danger rating-numbers themselves, download this sortable and editable Trail Ratings.ods spreadsheet. Click the following link to find out how the relative exertion and danger ratings are determined.
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