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Nochasauras
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 Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 7:47 am Post subject: The April holiday...down for hiking/camping in lebanon? |
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| I'm planning on visting Lebanon during the april holiday and plan to visit Baalbek then hike parts of the Lebanon Mountain Trail. i have my own tent and sleeping bag. anyone want to go? flights are pretty cheap on Nas Air to beirut leaving riyadth or jeddah. |
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scot47
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| Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 8:45 am Post subject: |
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Well it should be safer than sailing off the coast of Somalia. Or hill-walking on the Iraq-Iran border.
Forget the irony - I think this is foolish. |
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Sheikh N Bake
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| Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 1:42 pm Post subject: Re: The April holiday...down for hiking/camping in lebanon? |
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| Nochasauras wrote: |
| I'm planning on visting Lebanon during the april holiday and plan to visit Baalbek then hike parts of the Lebanon Mountain Trail. i have my own tent and sleeping bag. anyone want to go? flights are pretty cheap on Nas Air to beirut leaving riyadth or jeddah. |
Yah, I'm "down" with that...not! I don't even want to take a taxi in Lebanon. We had a colleague at DWC whose Beirut-area taxi was hit by a car, so he went across the street to get in another taxi and that taxi was hit by a third taxi and the guy bled to death from his leg artery. Just one tragic anecdote but...it seems to beckon me away from Lebanese taxis. As for the desert...(are we talking about Abha-like desert areas at the Lebanon Mountain Trail?? I would look it up, but.... you know what, I was so impressed how beautiful the Nevada desert was. Maybe that's politically incorrect--how dare I say something nice about the US desert! --but it's free and beautiful and I haven't seen enough of it yet. |
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scot47
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| Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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| The sheikh has it. You want to go camping, do it somewhere safe. |
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7168Riyadh
Joined: 19 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 3:08 pm Post subject: hiking in Lebanon is great actually |
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| I'm planning on visting Lebanon during the april holiday and plan to visit Baalbek then hike parts of the Lebanon Mountain Trail. i have my own tent and sleeping bag. anyone want to go? flights are pretty cheap on Nas Air to beirut leaving riyadth or jeddah. |
Nochasauras: Lebanon is a great place to go hiking--no security issues at all except in the far south--but you should be aware that there isn't much of a "trail". The LMT is actually a route through the mountains, marked in places, invisible elsewhere. It's better to go with a guide--I don't like doing this myself and so gave up on it eventually.
PM your email; I can give you info and even pass on some maps to you. |
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banana007
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 3:19 am Post subject: |
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| So this thread is old, but I'm curious how the hiking went. I would be careful with the LMT...I hiked a bit of it in the north by myself and it wasn't well marked at all. How did your trip go? |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 3:31 am Post subject: |
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I wonder if the OP is still around. He hasn't posted for a year, and if he is still in Saudi and doesn't have a proxy, he can't read this branch of Dave's.
VS |
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banana007
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 4:18 am Post subject: |
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| So this thread is old, but I'm curious how the hiking went. I would be careful with the LMT...I hiked a bit of it in the north by myself and it wasn't well marked at all. How did your trip go? |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 1:41 pm Post subject: |
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Try a PM. It is highly possible he is unable to even look at this branch, but if he is around the board, he may check PMs.
VS
(oops... just noticed that you only have 2 posts, so you can't send any PMs. You can when you get to 5 posts) |
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