The Diagonal hike up Table
Mountain
The Diagonal hike up Table Mountain is on the Camps Bay side of the mountain leading off the Pipe Track. It does have a few easy scrambles on it but nothing difficult and very little exposure. As the name implies the route takes you across a number of buttresses thus giving virtually unparallelled views of the 12 Apostles, the Atlantic ocean and Camps Bay.
The view down Porcupine Buttress
If you park on Tafelberg Rd and join the Pipe track there, Diagonal path is the first signed path off this route once you are past Blinkwater Ravine. Initially the path is steep and straight up until it reaches the first rocky bands and the first little scramble.
One of the easy scrambles on the Diagonal path
Once here the path levels out a little and begins to head to the right and around Porcupine buttress. Once around here you go for quite some distance up Porcupine ravine. This is a steep section of the path with a few small scrambles. You basically follow the river here, which following rain will be running quite quickly. The path keeps to the left of the stream initially before crossing it and beginning to take you around the next buttress called Jubilee buttress.
Following the stream up Porcupine Ravine
There are a few small scrambles here until the path begins to head straight up again. At the top the path levels out and then begins to lead slightly down hill to where it joins the path to Valley of the red gods. From here you can choose fom a multitude of routes down.
The view from the top of the Diagonal path
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