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This annual event, now in its ninth year, was also attended by members of Botsoc, the Wildflower Society, and many farmers of the Cederberg Conservancy. Learners from a local school were also eager to help.
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Why does Toilet Humour always get a laugh? Do you find the sign in the TM hut toilet quaint and amusing?
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On Saturday the 29th May 2010 a plaque commemorating Alf Morris was erected at Black Logs. Almost as a tribute to Alf Morris, Erica ericoides and Erica abietina can still be found, together with several other flowers in Alf's Garden, on the path up Vlakkenberg from the top of Price Drive.
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This special tree planting was also in memory of MCSA member Ian Cowburn who was tragically murdered in Rosmead Avenue, Kenilworth, while out jogging a year ago.
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Message from Lynne Moss:
A wake for John Moss is being brewed up, no date yet, but dust off your slides in the meantime.
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It is funny but rock climbers remember all the key moves and today I reminisce and imagine I am on these fine and difficult climbs. There seem so many active climbers today. One of the problems I had was to find climbers who would accompany me on routes I pioneered in the 50's...
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Of Haematocodon and Spooks... a group of 10 club members met at coordinates 34 degrees 78.065 S 18 degrees 26.529E on a chilly Thursday morning for a scramble up the mountain, some 640m known as "Left Face B".
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In 1927 Andrew Trimble ran to the summits of Devil's Pk, TM, and Lion's Head to beat the original time set by C.W.Schneeberger in 1897 by some 2 hours. This and the original feat are recorded in the MCSA Journals and it motivated Don Hartley to institute an Annual 3 Peaks Challenge race.
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Hans Wongtchowski's pictures of the first ascent in 1946, when the only way across the Orange river was by Pont.
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The hilarious new book about MCSA's Mike Meintjies is available from Rose at the club office for only R140. If you were always too polite to ask Mike why his ear got so mangled, then read this book. It is a hilarious story.
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Growing up in Natal she always loved the sea; mountains are a much more recent discovery, which she stumbled upon when she started a six-year stint of living overseas. Beginning with a Kilimanjaro climb, followed by a trekking holiday in Peru, hiking and walking has become an important part of staying fit, healthy and sane. She has been a member of the mountain club since 2007 but not a very active one, until getting involved in the Cape Nature project recently.
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Anton grew up on a farm on the slopes of Simonsberg. With the Drakenstein Mountains visible from his bedroom, a family who were enthusiastic members of the Matroosberg-based Ski Club of South Africa, and another home wedged between the beach and the mountain at Betty’s Bay, it was inevitable that his soul would want to wander in high places... and as a core member of the MCSA/Cape Nature Project
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Did an 11,500km cycle from Cairo to Cape Town this year, which was a great way to transition from work life to a free life!
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Do you like reading the personalties in Connect?
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A tribute to Ian who died an untimely death at the hands of a mugger last week
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Meet Christina Jongens, Vice-chair for 2009, skiing, climbing and
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