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I am also going to the same star parties as the Pegster. I have heard that the road up to table mountain is a bit rough, I do not have a vehicle I can drive on bad roads! I do have a 73 Chevy K10, but it has two go flats and two may pops for tires. No $$ for replacements

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I heard that too, so we went prepped last year for a rough road, but I've got an old 82 ford van, it'll take it. Well, as we drove up the hill on _pavement_ we kept asking 'where does the rough road start?'. When the gps said we were a little over a half mile from the site, we got off the pavement, onto a couple hundred yards of washboard gravel, then it was an easy dirt track for the last half mile.

Honestly, I dont think the folks talking about rough roads in that area know what a rough road is. When we bought the camper van, bought an old one for a bunch of reasons. First off, no big deal if we scratch the paint headed up backroads with overhanging trees, and secondly, it's got a proper frame under it, so it _can_ head onto a _rough_ road, of which there are plenty in this part of the world.

Table mountain is paved to within a mile of the site. Granted, it's only one lane paved, with occaisional pullouts to pass oncoming traffic, so be prepared to back up if you run into someone going the other way as you head up. It's narrow, and in a few places, steep, but nowhere did I see a grade worse than 10%.

When we leave Table, and head off to Kobau, there I expect to see a rough road.

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