Tomorrow I hike Table Mountain with Matt, Nick, and Tom(I can’t really count how many times I’ve done this)–Every hike is amazing, either with fog shrinking visibility down to just meters in front of you, or bright clear days where you can see the entirety of Cape Town to the Hottentot-Holland mountains, shimmering scraggly blue on the distant horizon.

The difference is that we’ll be hiking over night, where on the mountain during wintertime (it’s the southern hemisphere) temperatures can sink to just above freezing. It should make for an interesting time, considering that when I was up last Friday, Tom and I made the horrible decision to hike down off trail in the dark. Climbing down cliff faces in the dark is not wise decision and leads to things like almost falling

As the semester winds down, I’ve found it difficult to find time to post. Now that finals are over for me (last one was Wednesday) and my probable pitiful performance in them (they were Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and I didn’t really study), I should have a bit more time to post. A post is in order criticizing UCT’s course setup…