Title: Slackpacking: A guide to South Africa's top leisure trails
Author: Fiona McIntosh
Publisher: Sunbird Publishers
2nd edition. Cape Town, South Africa 2010
ISBN 9781920289140 / ISBN 978-1-920289-14-0
Softcover, 15 x 21 cm, 287 pages, 100 colour and b/w photos
Slackpacking is backpacking without the schlep, allowing hikers to travel light while someone else takes care of their overnight bags. This guide, which tells you all you need to know about some of South Africa's top slackpacking trails, is for everyone, from hardcore mountain lovers, twitchers and botanists to family groups and modern-day strandlopers. Slackpacking covers a wide variety of trails, including luxury, guided and catered trails, community-run guided trails and unguided, self-catered trails. Each day of each trail is described in detail, including such useful snippets of information as: distance covered and the average walking time; group size; degree of difficulty; level of accommodation; terrain; when best to walk; what to bring; who to contact to make all the arrangements.
1. Silver Sands Trail
2. West Coast Crayfish Trail
3. Cederberg Heritage Route
4. Five Bay Trail
5. Eve's Trail
6. Darling Stagger
7. Mountains in the Sea Trail
8. Green Mountain Trail
9. Oystercatcher Trail
10. Garden Route Trail
11. Donkey Trail
12. Dolphin Trail
13. Diaz Cross Trail
14. Three Sisters Trail
15. Wild Coast Amble
16. Wild Coast Meander
17. Wild Coast Hiking Tail - Port Stjohns to Coffee Bay
18. Hole in the Wall Trail
19. Wartrail Skywalk
20. Mehloding Hiking Trail
21. Giant's Cup Hikeathon
22. Amphitheatre Heritage Hike
23. Kosi Bay Trail
24. Hoerikwaggo Tented Classic - Silvermine, Orange Kloof, Slangkop trails
25. Hoerikwaggo Table Mountain Trail
26. Hunter Gatherer Trail
27. Swart Tobie
28. Cape of Good Hope Hiking Trail
29. Whale Trail
30. Tsitsikamma Trail
31. Drifters Wild Coast Hiking Trail
32. Mosslands Two River Trail
33. Wellington Wine Walks
34. Walks for Wine
35. Garden Route Forest and Mountain Walks
36. Swartberg Slackpacking Trail
37. Eden to Addo - Great Corridor Hike
38. Elephant Gorge Trail
39. Karoo Erdvark Trail
40. Gamka Reserve to Bonniedale Wilderness Hike
41. Wolf River Trail
42. Cebe to Cintsa B&B Trail
43. Coffee Bay to Mbashe Trail
44. Wild Coast Pondo Walk
45. Swissland Cheese Saunter
46. Cannibal Trail
47. Queen Rose Trail
48. Num Num Trail