Matt: Amanda's Back!! yep Miss Darby has returned to sunny Dubai for a holiday. It's great to see her and no doubt, with the twosome reunited (Naomi and Amanda) they'll be causing trouble around town.
Well I finally managed to get a crew together to attempt the Jungle Book Hike again, We left Dubai at 8:30 on Friday morning and drove to Ras Al Khaimah, met a few other in RAK and then headed for the intrepid Wadi Bih. After rallying the cars around so that we didn't have to walk back down the Wadi - we set off.
It was a tough walk, again clambering over huge boulders or up scree. But it was good - there were a few walls on the route, but nothing too tricky. They most difficult part was a 3 metre face of very smooth rock. A knotted rope was left here, but due to the smoothness of the rock even with this is was very difficult. So we set about making a harness form my rope and taking some of the climber weight with that. Everyone got up without event.
The last 45 minutes was exhausting, climbing a 45-60 degree scree slope top the summit. Everyone did brilliantly though and are keen for the next adventure. A few of us camped at a spot Cris and I discovered a few weeks back. Though not much sleep was had, the wind was ferocious. But it was a great trip.
Thanks to all who come along and made it worthwhile.
Cris conquers the wall... the drop behind her is about 20 feet, I'm on a ledge below.
Well I finally managed to get a crew together to attempt the Jungle Book Hike again, We left Dubai at 8:30 on Friday morning and drove to Ras Al Khaimah, met a few other in RAK and then headed for the intrepid Wadi Bih. After rallying the cars around so that we didn't have to walk back down the Wadi - we set off.
It was a tough walk, again clambering over huge boulders or up scree. But it was good - there were a few walls on the route, but nothing too tricky. They most difficult part was a 3 metre face of very smooth rock. A knotted rope was left here, but due to the smoothness of the rock even with this is was very difficult. So we set about making a harness form my rope and taking some of the climber weight with that. Everyone got up without event.
The last 45 minutes was exhausting, climbing a 45-60 degree scree slope top the summit. Everyone did brilliantly though and are keen for the next adventure. A few of us camped at a spot Cris and I discovered a few weeks back. Though not much sleep was had, the wind was ferocious. But it was a great trip.
Thanks to all who come along and made it worthwhile.
Cris conquers the wall... the drop behind her is about 20 feet, I'm on a ledge below.
Melissa's turn..
The Crew - Well done all.
From left to right: John, Emily, Justin, Matt, Melissa, Julia, Fiona, Cris
Mike, Rene and Ahmed are the wrong side of the camera...
Can't wait to arrange the next one, maybe this weekend.
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