Once we had ridden through all the long and flat roads to reach the Skurweberg pass, it was time to climb up and get onto the plateau higher up as we moved in-land. Looking at ridge it didn't seem to daunting, but once we got going it turned out to be an excellent ride up and quite steep and sharp at some points, with a bit of loose gravel for good measure.

Heading up the pass


This is the daily blog from Africa4Adventure.com. A short series on the Karoo Motorbike tour we took on during September 2011. See the plans for the trip blog here: Planning a 6 day 2500km route through the Karoo maximising dirt

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Rich in hot pursuit

 

This is the approach to the pass before we started - you can see the road winding up in the distance
Skurweberg pass location co-ords are: -32.40982,20.322275 care of Google maps

 

Directly up on loose gravel

 

 

Made it up to the first level

 

Now about half way
Off up to the next leve