Day one from Wilgerfontein to Uitsig starts on the dirt road for a short distance, then veers off to follow a stram up Visserskloof. Here are magic pools and rock formations. Eventually you reach the “top” and enter the Stone Desert………a more barren but still attractive and interesting area. You do a circuit in a sort of “bowl” before cresting at a ' beacon’ from where there are good views and a view of Kompassberg in the distance.

Then there is a long and very gradual descent which in the last stages enters a shallow , dry , stream bed ……more like a “sloot’….which leads virtually to the doorstep of Uitsig “hut”

Uitsig is magic. Its an old barn/cowshed divided into two. You open a gate which comprises the whole of one end wall of the structure. This reveals a stone flagged floor. Old shuttered windows with bric a brac on the windowsills. A large indoor fireplace and braai grids and wood. A massive central table made from the end of a cable drum. Seats and benches are tree stumps and poles. The entire place is decorated with  “hikers graffiti’ burnt into planks and poles  (purposely left there for that purpose)  with branding irons supplied by the farmer.

Windows that have been looked out of by successive generation with very little change to the view.

Up the jeep track, past more ruins,…..wind around in the veld,…collect porcupine quills,…pass an old kraal,…..pass ox wagon tracks,…….and ascend gently to a beacon where there is a great “totem pole’ consisting of planks with hikers names etc branded on them.  (You do this at the overnight stop and then if energetic, carry your plank up here )

Then its more relaxed traipsing through the veld until you drop to another ruin surrounded by pepper trees. Close to this you enter a stream with a big clump of shady poplar trees.

Another magic old place with all the facilities you need and a bucket shower that is properly designed , well constructed and really works!!

Day 3-Weltevrede back to Wilgefontein

The last day back to Wilgerfontein leads past 2 small dams, then after a gentle up and down which passes a well preserved bushman painting, you are in another stream bed.  Along this part of the route you pass some lichen and mosses in damp patches by the stream

 On this day we spotted the occasional buck.

You ascend to a plateaux with views and this warranted 2 loooong breaks just relaxing and enjoying. Later you pass a fossilised stream bed. All too soon you see base in the distance below and after winding you down n round a koppie and through more poplar saplings, you reach the end.