Closing date for submissions is 15.09.2017!   Please send your photos to Amy and Brent at   This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Please include with your submission: Location, description and season when the photo was taken, as well as the photographer.

Unless specifically stated to the contrary, all photographic submissions may be used at the discretion of the Mountain Backpackers Club: posted onto the MBC Facebook page, this website and also used by the Bluff Camera Club for educational purposes.  Please make any objections very clear upon submission.

Competition is open to MBC paid-up members only, maximum of 5 photos per person.

Photos are to be from outdoors/hiking/backpacking content please.  There are no categories for judging, but some suggestions are fauna, flora, scenery, portraits. 

Prizes: 1^st place - book or R 700;  2^nd  place  - R400 (Gift voucher); 3^rd place - R 200  (Gift voucher) 

Congratulations to last year’s winner, Roger Rood.  And runners up, Lisa Smith and Errol Douwes!

 Check out our latest Fixture List for July - Sept 2017, and see where we're wandering to next!  Not sure? Not a member? Come along anyway, make a donation, and come explore the wilderness with us...See you out there!

Welcome to one of the most active, fun and vibrant hiking clubs in South Africa!  If you are not yet a member of the Club, please click on Join.

The AGM was held on 13 October 2016.  The current Executive Committee, except for John McGovern, Brett Bentley, Roy Bowden and Jacqui Kennedy, were re-elected.  Thanks for your contributions over the years!

The MBC Executive Committee for 2016/2017 is as follows: Acting Chairperson: Karen Miller; Vice Chairperson and Magazine & Fixture List: Andy Brown; Treasurer: Bobby Stanton; Marketing: Heidi Cox; Member Liaison: Sorin Dimitiu; Leader Liaison and Secretary: Amy Grantham and Brent Byron Kloppers who bring fresh energy to the team!  Not on the Committee and behind the scenes are Philip van Gass: Membership Administrator and Jovita da Silva: Website Administrator.