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When we arrived at the base station there were a lot of 4x4 vehicles waiting to go up the mountain. It was a very profitable day for the reserve. They charged R250 per vehicle to go up the mountain. The previous snowing weekend it was R230 per vehicle.

They sent the vehicles up in batches of 25 per convoy. But the vehicles on the mountain first had to come down before the others could go up. By the time we went up the convoy was 40 vehicles big. All shapes and sizes. I think the reserve management acted irresponsible for allowing rookies in vehicles like Suburu Foresters to go up the mountain. There were people in a new Pajero who never went off road before who went up. I would rate the trail in those conditions as a severe 3.

Anyway, we did not see any accident so I presume all went well. I guess if you charge R250 per vehicle and there are hundreds of people begging you to go up you just see the money and do not think about the safety of the people.

The line of 4x4 vehicles at the office waiting to depart.

At the foot of the mountain we stopped again to wait for the last vehicles to come down the mountain