We chat about the dangers of travelling over the festive season and we close the chapter on the Swartberg Classic Tour.
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Swartberg Classic Tour – Day 3 (Prince Albert to Die Hel)
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Day 3 of the Swartberg Classic Tour (Die Hel to the southern end of the Swartberg Pass)
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A chat covering the first half of Day 2 of the Swartberg Classic Tour.
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We relive the first day of our recent Swartberg Classic Tour.
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In this chat we cover diverse subjects including weather systems, a new tour to the Swartberg area and the Zuurberg Pass.
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We discuss the second day of the recent Swartberg Tour.
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A chat covering day 1 of our recent Swartberg Tour
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This relatively unknown pass is located on the farm road designated MR00363 between the Swartberg Pass and Calitzdorp, just to the east of the Kruisrivier settlement. It offers marvellous scenery with the mighty Swartberg Range looming ever present to the north. With a moderate length of 4.7 km and an equally modest altitude gain of 156m it produces an easy average gradient of 1:30 but there are a few sections that do ramp up 1:8.
There are a number of passes to the north-east of Calitzdorp which mainly follow the many river courses that flow down from the Swartberg Mountains. These include the Kruisrivierpoort, Huis se Hoogte, and Coetzees Poort. There are a number of cautionaries for this pass, despite it's modest statistics. These inlclude some very sharp corners, steep drop offs, loose gravel on the corners, ruts and washaways as well as a strong possibility of finding livestock on the road.
A discussion around the details of the upcoming Great Swartberg Tour in May 2019.
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