Two weeks ago just before the long weekend, South africa encountered alot of snow for a week. Here in Durban, it came down in buckets.
First it HAILED like crazy,the size of golf balls in some suburbs while others looked like snow had fallen.
For us it was a planned trip (of which many bailed) to the Injisuthi valley where we (3 of us boys) were to hike to the lower injisuthi cave for 2 nights while the others enjoyed base camp.
This opportunity to hike when the Drakensberg was snowing is quite a worry & we took all that was warm.
Thursday morning after getting some more food supplies we left & were hoping we would miss all the traffic & the possibility that the N3 would be reopened,but that was not to happen.
The traffic was quite full as everyone headed to the Midlands to play in the snow & we were very fortunate that once we got stuck in the road block near Escourt,it was only an hour before the wheels started rolling again. Unfortunate to the truck drivers who were stuck for days due to icy roads.They were really angry which caused a huge delay as they were tossing rocks at other cars that were moving.
Once on the road,we noticed that Where we were headed, there was no snow around.
That was lucky as setting up base camp became an easy task.
As that was sorted,the fire got started & the drinks came out & an awesome evening was had by all.
Night fell quick & so did the cold.
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