Freedom Challenge day 7

FCRASA day 7

We left Alpine Swift, just outside of Rhodes, at 05:10. It did not feel that cold, but Sandy saw -10 on her temprature gauge! With a wind chill factor downhill it probably much colder. The ride was fairly pleasant on good district roads with many undulations. Things did warm up once the sun poke its head above the horizon. We stopped for a morning snack at the Bokspruit turn off. The road continued to go up and down and the surface was good. This resulted in really pleasant riding up to the Bottelnek Pass turn off. The road surface deteriorated immediately. The first part was downhill, but that was followed by a long climb through a neck. Once down the otherside, we pulled into Chesney Wold for lunch after 6:50 and stopped for 45 minute and was treated to gorgeous meal of wholesum vegitable soup and mutton neck stew. 

After a short streach of gravel, we turned right on the Elliot/Barcley East tar road. After a further 3 km we turned left on the Rytjiesvlakte road, which took us up to the Kapokkraal turn off. It was quite a climb all the way right up to the Kapokkraal farmstead. From there we had to find our way through the veld up to the neck. A distance of just over 4 km, which took us about an hour. Down the otherside we had to use an old disused wagon trail, which was not ridable. Once at the bottom we found a good farm track, which took us to Slaapkrans, where we stayed for the night. 

Total riding time was 11:58:31.