Gilboa - Har Barkan (above Beit Alfa and Heftziba)
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 9.76 mi
- Elevation gain
- 1,962 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 1,962 ft
- Max elevation
- 1,585 ft
- TrailRank
- 49
- Min elevation
- -394 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Moving time
- 3 hours 52 minutes
- Time
- 5 hours 29 minutes
- Coordinates
- 2841
- Uploaded
- April 17, 2021
- Recorded
- April 2021
near Bet Alfa, Northern District (Israel)
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Itinerary description
The way I did it the descent was a lot steeper and there were a lot of "ladders" to climb down. After that there was a long walk back to the car.
It would have been better to park between Beit Alfa and Heftziba and do the whole route in the opposite direction. That way you climb the ladders and walk down on the dirt-road.
Waypoints
Photo
-287 ft
Fields of Sabres fruit
In other places in the country this grows as a wild, but here the grow it in rows and, I guess, sell the fruits of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opuntia_ficus-indica
Flora
Intersection
-189 ft
Intersection
So apparently I came up on the unmarked dirt-road and the green route on which I started to walk, was in a slightly different direction.
Intersection
-257 ft
black-green intersection
I took the green route here and then soon I lost the marks and walked in the wilderness just to find the green mark again some 10-15 min later. It is probably much better to stay on the black route.
Waypoint
Intersection
1,436 ft
The red crossing the black
I came up more-or-less on the black and later went down on the red. I guess it would have been better the other way around.
Photo
1,533 ft
Mt. Barkan lookout
I took some photos at the viewpoint but frankly the view on the way up and on the way down was much better than at the top.
Panorama
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