Mishor-Yemin-Ein-Yorkeam-Small-Fin

Starting point

Wadi Yamin, Yamin Cisterns (that I called ponds)

Waypoint

Still flat but you can already see the beginning of the Wadi

Does not look too deep. Yet

In the riverbed

The water cut through here

we can walk around There is some water at the bottom of this.

A cistern

More cisterns (ponds)

With hiking partner for sizing the stone wall

Just some nice rock formations

More place for the water to flow

And some more

This is not all descend, we also had to climb a bit

I was surprised a bit as I did not remember it from the previous hike.

River bend

A crack in the stone

Passing over the crack

It looks like 30-50 m deep and about 40-50 cm wide at the top

(river) bed and breakfast

We are going down there to the river-bed. We had breakfast here. This is what people call bed and breakfast.

Looking back to the breakfast place

The little people there are still at the b&b.

A side track we did not take

Hard to see the b&b

Intersection of the two river-beds

Here we turned to the right on the green and on the national trail.

River-bed and the walls we'll have to climb

Boulders blocking the river

And we have also just missed the route that went above them so we had to return some 50 meters.

The way up

It is a bit hard to see in the picture but on the left side of it there is a path up with some lighter color leading up to the ladder.

The ladder - The Palmach Ascend

On the wall of the river-bed

It isn't that scary as you can hold the hand-rails Some people in the background climbing

Looking back to the river-bed

Ein Yorkeam - The cistern/pond

Road sign: Ein Yorkqeam (Ein Yorkeam)

Transcribing to Latin letters is hard Spelling English is harder. I think it says Palmah Acsent Instead of Palmach Ascent. On the bright side, all the letter are there.

Tunel under the train tracks on the way to the Small Fin

It is about 150 cm high and 50 m long. With my 187 cm it was not easy to cross this.

On the way to the Small Fin

The view back to the train tracks and the parking lot.

Stones smashed together

The fin - this *is* the path

The fin - now you can even see the markings on the path

It is scarier in the real life :-)

View from the top

Some stones with holes

Shadow and light - on the way down

Down from the Small Fin

From here there is about 1-1.5 km on the asphalt road back to the parking lot. There is a path in the river-bed that is a bit longer but might be a bit more pleasant. There are not many cars on this mostly one-lane road, but the drivers are scary. So make sure you keep a distance.