点评:I tackled Table Top as part of my 9 month training for Mt Kilimanjaro. It’s a short 2km return hike but it’s challenging & requires technique, concentration & reasonable fitness. The first 100-200m is straight uphill & will really get your heart pumping. From then there is a challenging section to navigate over large rocks where focus & strategic foot placement is essential (I’m sure people have twisted many an ankle here). The next section is uphill with thousands of small black rocks/pebbles underfoot for a few hundred metres - you need to take care here too as it’s easy to lose grip. Then the last section is sheer rock face that involves rock climbing/scrambling & you need to pull yourself up carefully with hands and feet - taking it carefully and ensuring four points of contact here is key as it would be easy to lose balance/placement & fall a considerable distance below! But for me I enjoyed the challenge & this was great training. I saw a family doing geocache on the way up. Once at the top the views are indeed spectacular. You can walk either side via tiny little clearings in the long grass and get views from both north & south. On the northern side there is a rock sculpture with nice views and I spent 15 minutes just chilling and looking at the sky and the mountains off in the distance.
Hint - drive all the way to the end of the road if you just want to do the summit. I stopped at a car park further up the road which had an alternate starting point which required an extra 2km or so of walking.
翻译:在我为期 9 个月的乞力马扎罗山训练中,我解决了 Table Top。这是一个短的 2 公里回程徒步旅行,但它具有挑战性并且需要技术、注意力和合理的健身。第一个 100-200 米是直线上坡,会让您心跳加速。从那时起,有一个具有挑战性的部分,要在大块岩石上导航,在该部分中,重点和战略性的脚部放置是必不可少的(我敢肯定人们在这里扭伤了很多脚踝)。下一段是上坡,脚下有数百米的黑色小石头/鹅卵石 - 您在这里也需要小心,因为它很容易失去抓地力。然后最后一段是纯粹的岩壁,涉及攀岩/攀岩&你需要用手和脚小心地把自己拉起来-小心地抓住它并确保这里的四个接触点是关键,因为它很容易失去平衡/放置&落在下面相当远的地方!但对我来说,我喜欢挑战,这是很棒的训练。我在上山的路上看到一家人在做地理藏宝。一旦到达顶部,景色确实非常壮观。您可以在长长的草丛中穿过微小的空地,从两边走,从南北两边欣赏美景。在北侧有一个风景优美的岩石雕塑,我花了 15 分钟只是放松一下,看着远处的天空和群山。
提示 - 如果您只想登顶,请一直开到路的尽头。我在路边的一个停车场停了下来,那里有一个备用起点,需要额外步行 2 公里左右。