Kirithon canyon - Wadi Naqab
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 5.13 mi
- Elevation gain
- 3,491 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Difficult
- Elevation loss
- 3,491 ft
- Max elevation
- 2,821 ft
- TrailRank
- 33
- Min elevation
- 726 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Coordinates
- 721
- Uploaded
- December 6, 2020
- Recorded
- December 2020
near Yinas, Raʼs al Khaymah (United Arab Emirates)
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Itinerary description
Trekking up to famous Sheri village with subsequent descent via Kirithon canyon with amazing rock formations carved by time and water.
Trek itself is very well marked with cairns and there's plenty information about it.
Additional information you can find at https://climbing7.com/2020/10/29/gorges-du-kirithon-ras-al-khaimah/
Descent involves crossing one gully and going down second one before you hit the wadi Kirithon bed.
There you'll have 4 abseils - 8m, 40m, 40m, 58m.
Access to 2nd abseil station requires quite strenuous traverse on the left side of the pass exposed over dirty pool.
Immediately after 2nd abseil go up the scree slope on your right to bypass one of the drops, then after around 20m go down the scree gully along the rock wall to rejoin with the wadi.
Second and 3rd abseils are quite vertical and enjoyable while last one is a bit inclined and not that thrilling.
Canyon, beside abseils, involves a lot of exhausting downclimbing and scrambling which is not easy to find, but manageable.
Trek itself is very well marked with cairns and there's plenty information about it.
Additional information you can find at https://climbing7.com/2020/10/29/gorges-du-kirithon-ras-al-khaimah/
Descent involves crossing one gully and going down second one before you hit the wadi Kirithon bed.
There you'll have 4 abseils - 8m, 40m, 40m, 58m.
Access to 2nd abseil station requires quite strenuous traverse on the left side of the pass exposed over dirty pool.
Immediately after 2nd abseil go up the scree slope on your right to bypass one of the drops, then after around 20m go down the scree gully along the rock wall to rejoin with the wadi.
Second and 3rd abseils are quite vertical and enjoyable while last one is a bit inclined and not that thrilling.
Canyon, beside abseils, involves a lot of exhausting downclimbing and scrambling which is not easy to find, but manageable.
Waypoints
Waypoint
1,529 ft
R3
Altitude 464 m Created 2020-12-06 20:50:15
Waypoint
1,477 ft
R4
Altitude 445 m Created 2020-12-06 20:50:27
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Hello Kozyriev Oleksandr.
Excellent tour.
The wadi you went up is the Wadi Samarat, a tributary of the Wadi Madnan, in which is the Kirithon Canyon. Arriving in the northwestern part of the village of Shairi - ديرة شعري (Sheri) you crossed the ravine on the left arm of Wadi Samarat, to pass to the southwestern part of the same village, and then down Kirithon Canyon, in Wadi Madnan (tributary of Wadi Naqab).
There is a more direct climb to the southwest part of the village, which is what you can see on this route
https://en.wikiloc.com/hiking-trails/united-arab-emirates-eau-ras-al-khaimah-rak-wadi-naqab-wadi-samarat-channel-lb-sheri-v-samarat-vill- 126435524
Greetings