DK hike day 3 night

After a moderate scare in the form of Darren's Land Rover Defender not starting (it ended up being his not setting the choke correctly on ignition, though despite all my car savvy, I couldn't help him), we have driven back from the DK to JB. On the way, we stopped at Nando's. I had the chicken burger and the 5 wing meal. It was good. I have to try a spicy chicken burger.

Breakfast was FutureLife, a kind of high performance grits. In strawberry flavor, it can favorably be described as pre-chewed Special K with Red Berries:

Today's hiking was the most difficult, taking on the big climb we missed yesterday due to rain. There were lots of spots that were more technically challenging (dangerous) and physically exhausting than yesterday. Having never hiked any trail that required more than walking steps, I was pretty wary of going too far, especially with Darren stopping for long pauses to decide whether certain routes were even possible. I felt like I was being simultaneously told it was dangerous and that I shouldn't quit. The lack of pictures from these hard parts is again simply because I was using every limb to keep from falling off the mountain. 

This is an example of something we had to scale:

After slogging through a lot of hillside grass and up three of those rock face walls, we reached the top of Cathedral Peak. DK denied us a clear view:

Then we descended back into the mist:

Going down was easy for a while, but I managed to overheat and dehydrate. Then I rolled my ankle, which made the remaining kms even tougher. 

I think I had a decent time going up those climbs, but I definitely had no idea what this hike involved. The Soul Adventures company bills itself as guided mountaineering. I think that is far more accurate. This is not the furthest I've been physically, but it's close.