Block House Trail Run

Our trail grading: ORANGE 5A

Distance: 10.5km

Extremeness: Tough climb and technical contour single track

Location: Newlands Forest, Cape Town, South Africa

Joggers: Christiaan van Niekerk & me

We started our Newlands Forest jog with the regular route, reaching the Table Bay lookout point after about 25min. From here we climbed straight towards the famous old Block House. By using our Spidey senses we found the top most single track heading back towards Kirstenbosch. This is a beautiful single track which turn into wooden walkways after about 2km - providing our ankles with the necessary rest. We took the first single track downwards and linked to our regular route heading back to our cars.

Suffering in an awesome environment

Last light on this side of Table Mountain 

Table Bay

The real climb begins...

The Block House

What Christiaan would do in the heat of battle

A new single track to us

An awesome view as we left the trees

The "extreme jog" turning into a walk in the park

Back to extreme jogging again