Race Across South Africa (Freedom Challenge RASA)
No GPS. You navigate roughly 2,000km across South Africa by paper map and written route narrative, the old-fashioned way. Getting lost is common here, and it costs you dearly.
The route
A diagonal traverse from Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal to Diemersfontein near Wellington, crossing the Drakensberg, the arid Karoo plateau and range after range on dirt roads, farm tracks, faint trails and hike-a-bike portages. Self-supported between a chain of overnight stations, navigated by map and narrative alone.
Early-April, Pietermaritzburg → Diemersfontein/Wellington
Highs around 25°C and lows around 14°C, but it has dropped to 7°C. Rain on 48% of days.
Who finishes, and how
Training for the Race Across South Africa (Freedom Challenge RASA)
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