KAROOBAIX

Welcome #karoobaix sights, thanks to @clarkescapetown! Photographs by @theradavist https://www.instagram.com/p/BoOCvekhW2H/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1sw4zg7grxkxa

Good food and great people made for the best lunch stop ever! Sloppy Joe roosterkoek in collaboration with Poppie van As, and mimosas! #karoobaix Photographs by @theradavist https://www.instagram.com/p/BoI7PgJBQ-s/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=75upcfyphfnb

The best lunch stop in the history of bike race lunch stops. Lyndall, Elmi and Tannie Poppie turned this abandoned farmhouse into a #karoobaix oasis! Photograph by @theradavist. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn0ownuBzVD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1e73hlwy8npzq

Smooth for #karoobaix. Photograph by @theradavist.

Getting down to business. #karoobaix Photograph by @theradavist.

Icy sun. #karoobaix Photograph by @theradavist.

Day two! #karoobaix Photograph by @theradavist.

Only the essentials. #karoobaix Photograph by @theradavist. (at Sutherland, Northern Cape)

Map briefing for Day 2 - 175km from Sutherland to Matjiesfontein, via the Moordenaars Karoo and Laingsburg. #karoobaix Photograph by @theradavist. (at Sutherland, Northern Cape)

#karoobaix conditions. Photograph by @theradavist. (at Tankwa Karoo National Park)

#karoobaix Photograph by @theradavist. (at Tankwa Karoo National Park)

Then the icy rains came. #karoobaix Photograph by @theradavist. (at Sutherland, Northern Cape)

At the too of Ouberg Pass we were all greeted by the most warmest, friendliest, foodiest sight - our friends Nic, Erin and Tjol with snacks and drinks from heaven. #karoobaix Photograph by @theradavist. (at Tankwa Karoo National Park)

#karoobaix Photograph by @theradavist. (at Tankwa Karoo National Park)

The mind bending Ouberg climb from #karoobaix 2017. (at Tankwa Karoo National Park)

On the way up the mean, mean Ouberg climb. #karoobaix Photograph by @theradavist. (at Tankwa Karoo National Park)

Rising. #karoobaix Photograph by @theradavist. (at Tankwa Karoo National Park)