Hakahana

[HAKAHANA TRAILS]

YES.

Just look out for the painted gum poles and bunting tape.

Yes pretty self explanatory. we have marked the end of routes, with an X, (instead of arrow), and the next colour then shows an arrow. Ie blue X will also show green routes first arrow.

[TALUS]

As soon as this 94.7 nonsense is over, I am there like a bear!

[SeanScalpel]

Today myself and two friends went to Hakahana for some proper riding, and boy did we get exactly that!

We rode the blue, the black, the red and the green; it made for a good 42km and roughly 1000m ascent!

 

As mentioned previously, the black route is definitely not for the unfit and requires a decent level of technical skills. Nothing was unrideable, but a proper challenge for sure! The views from the top are spectacular and the descend is EPIC!

 

The red route, I figured, is red for a reason! The climb back over the mountain starts out not very technical, but 3 flippen steep hills following on each other. When you get to this point, you kinda hope it over, but it's not, you make a left, then a right and then a left again and this is where the party starts! Another proper climb, but this time quite rocky, making momentum key, only thing is, momentum doesn't come with granny gear When we got to the top, we were on 29km and a whopping 825m ascent!!!

 

The green route is a fun, fairly fast, but a tiring 8km (150m ascent) of single track, which took its toll after blue, black and red were already in the legs!

 

Today was a proper test for my 1x9 setup! But I loved every minute!

 

Here's my Bryton profile for anyone interested:

http://www.brytonspo...View?id=4732711

 

Afterwards had a good chat with the owner - Johan. Very friendly guy, a true MTB'er at heart! Big up to him and his team making these routes available to us!

Edited November 16, 2013 by SeanScalpel

[HAKAHANA TRAILS]

Today myself and two friends went to Hakahana for some proper riding, and boy did we get exactly that!

We rode the blue, the black, the red and the green; it made for a good 42km and roughly 1000m ascent!

 

As mentioned previously, the black route is definitely not for the unfit and requires a decent level of technical skills. Nothing was unrideable, but a proper challenge for sure! The views from the top are spectacular and the descend is EPIC!

 

The red route, I figured, is red for a reason! The climb back over the mountain starts out not very technical, but 3 flippen steep hills following on each other. When you get to this point, you kinda hope it over, but it's not, you make a left, then a right and then a left again and this is where the party starts! Another proper climb, but this time quite rocky, making momentum key, only thing is, momentum doesn't come with granny gear When we got to the top, we were on 29km and a whopping 825m ascent!!!

 

The green route is a fun, fairly fast, but a tiring 8km (150m ascent) of single track, which took its toll after blue, black and red were already in the legs!

 

Today was a proper test for my 1x9 setup! But I loved every minute!

 

Here's my Bryton profile for anyone interested:

http://www.brytonspo...View?id=4732711

 

Afterwards had a good chat with the owner - Johan. Very friendly guy, a true MTB'er at heart! Big up to him and his team making these routes available to us!

Awesome feedback sean! Thanks. still amazed you managed on the 1x9

[vinylguy]

hakahana is great!

 

definitely some of the biggest climbs in gauteng!

[madvics]

On the downhill after rinkhals, accidently touched the rear disc and burnt my calve.