A Hogsback Snow Week: What a Big Fall Really Looks Like Every winter the same question floods in from the lowlands: is it snowing in Hogsback? We keep the practical answer on our snow report page. This post is the other answer — what a proper fall actually does to this village, told through a…

Kettlespout: The Hogsback Waterfall That Falls Upward Every waterfall in the world does the same thing. Water goes over an edge; water comes down. Hogsback has one that didn’t read the brief. Kettlespout Falls, on the high ground above the village, is famous for a piece of theatre that sounds invented until you stand in…

The 800-Year-Old Tree: Walking to the Eastern Cape Monarch At the bottom of the Tyume indigenous forest, down a path that loses about 280 metres of altitude between the main road and the valley floor, stands a Yellowwood so large that people have been walking down to look at it for well over a century….

On the hillside below Tor Doone, overlooking the valley that runs down toward Alice, lies a weathered stone outline in the grass. Easy to miss, impossible to forget once found: the earthwork of a British fort. Nothing stands there now, and on a misty day you might walk right past it. Yet the plaque beside…

Something clicks the first time you arrive in Hogsback. The mist sits in the yellowwood canopy. The path vanishes into forest that is genuinely old, the biggest of them centuries old. The air smells of fern and cold water. Samango monkeys move through the upper branches. Somewhere nearby, a waterfall. You think: this is the…