Do you remember learning about a trapezium at school? It’s like a rectangle crossed with a triangle: the top and bottom sides are parallel; the left and right sides aren’t.
That’s what the elevation profile of the Oudebosch-Harold Porter hike looks like – a slope on either side, with a level bit at the top in the middle.
Most people start in Kogelberg Nature Reserve, a spectacular patch of mountain wilderness between Betty’s Bay and Kleinmond on the Overberg coast. The trail goes left