lesotho escarpment hiking
Speaking to some hard core hikers, i have noted a number of them have been doing some interesting things, for example, hiking from the SA side of the berg to places like Mokhotlong and Molumong, then catching a taxi back to underberg. This kind of trip will take you past the headwaters of some of lesotho's best trout streams (senqu & khubelu). These people are not fly fishers, but there have been reports of some pretty big fish (can only be trout really). I think it would be the opportunity of a lifetime for someone into fly fishing to do this kind of trip, as it would be pretty much impossible to reach these waters anyother way (even wiht a 4x4).
Anyone on this forum into hiking (especially extreem hiking). I was thinking of a trip as follows:
Day 1: Mweni Cultural Centre up the Ntonjelana river camping at the base of rockeries pass. Added bonus I recall seeing brown trout in the Ntonjelana river in my school days ... but not heard any trout reports from this area for many years.
Day 2: Up Rockeries pass and find the source of the senqu river. Hike hard down the upper senqu (google earth looks like the river starts getting pretty touty 15 - 20 km in)
Day 3 Fish the senqu
Day 4/5: fish a bit and hard hike back to rockaries & down to MCC.
(would also be an option to hike to Mokhotlong/sleep over and catch taxi to underberg, would require the logistics of getting back to MCC though)
Any one very fit and properly equipped that would be insane enough to try something like this (probably around septermber/october) pm me.
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Originally Posted by AdrianPowrie
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