Ehmej Hafroun-mount Namrood

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zahi.ramadan

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Distance: 4.73 mi
Elevation gain: 1,811 ft
Technical difficulty: Very difficult
Elevation loss: 1,811 ft
Max elevation: 6,351 ft
TrailRank: 57
Min elevation: 5,110 ft
Trail type: Loop

Time: 6 hours 42 minutes
Coordinates: 1519
Uploaded: October 25, 2020
Recorded: October 2020

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near El Moukhâda, Mont-Liban (Lebanon)

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Itinerary description

The name Namrood (Arabic) means difficult and a rebel. Mount Namrood embodies those meanings to the letter. A rock mountain where you are racing from one sinkhole to another hopping over boulders (some are unstable). The beauty of this mountain are the rock formations who were shaped by sun and snow over millions of years.
The trail was an exploratory one where we also had to deal with fried up thorns that became a thorn in our sides. The weather was great with temp in lower 20s and cloudy sky and breeze helping us stay cool.
As for the scenery, I will let the pictures speak for themselves.

N.B. This is an EXTREMELY DIFFICULT hike and could be DANGEROUS.

Waypoints

Sea Sand

In Lebanon, you find beach sands at the top of mountains which is used as evidence that earth was submerged in water millions of years ago.

Fertile Land

among rocks you come across pieces of land that are being tilled and used by farmers for summer/winter vegitation.

Namrood Hill I

One of many hilltops making Namrood mountain

Bottomless Gore

We stumbled on this cave/gore by chance. Throwing a stone in it, we could hear it crashing on the sides before it finally faded away a good time later.

Rock Formation

sun and snow do wonder for nature. one of many rock formations you find in Mount Namrood.

Cave

This cave was visited by others before us (markings on how to get in/out). And to our surprise we found snow. This is the farthest summer time where we stumbled on snow in Lebanon.

Surveying Point

Lebanese Army places these points on mountain tops to help in topographical matters in Lebanon.

Virgin Mary Rock

Rock formations that resembles the virgin Mary. We had our lunch break there.

Inferno

What is heaven without hell? a few hundred meters away from the virgin Mary rock, we encountered another rock formation dubbed as the inferno by our Guide Chris. The rocks are formidable and the soil is black.

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