Today we're stoked to have Jason Acar, a writer for the awesome SA adventure guide books Dirty Boots , telling us all about a new craze in outdoor adventure in South Africa: Slackpacking. Sounds like my kinda hiking!

I am currently training for my big adventure of 2009: Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. They say the best preparation you can do is to climb, hike and trek, up and down as much as possible. There are so many stunning hiking trails all over the Cape Peninsula, but it is only now that I am training that I have started to become familiar with them as well as the tears of joy (and pain!) of hiking.