Thursday, March 26, 2009

What an eventful Month

Matt: March seems to have been a pretty eventful month here in Dubai. I've been hiking 4 times since my last update with most of the hikes taking out newbie hikers, which is great. I love showing people the territory and mountains.

We conquered Jebel Hatta too, a 10 hour hike, climbing to 1600 metres. It was a tough slog and dark by the time we made it back to the cars to camp in the wadi. Where I was bitten to excess by mosquitoes and acquired a slow puncture on the car, which decided to blowout on the way home at 120kph.. All safe though.

March also saw a visit to new mountains, well new to me, I'm sure they've actually been there a while. Kelly and I took a trip to Lebanob and went Snowboarding in Mzaar. It was awesome.

Check the photos Album 1 Album 2

It snowed really heavily for the first two days, as you'll see from the pics. The sides of the roads were 6-8 feet deep with snow. We had lots of fun.

Miss Rankin Harper also turned 30 last week - so we celebrated in style with an 80's theme Fancy Dress party. Constructing the Proton Packs was an all nighter but worth it :)