Oman Calling – 3/2013 –June 28-29, 2013 – Mountain and Wadi
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quote Saj:Another adventure in the literal sense. \M/ …….The lead then stopped the convoy at one of most amazing spots I have personally come across for members to enjoy what nature has to offer. This spot is so aptly named as Snake Gorge :YMBRINGITON: It was so refreshing to just soak our feet in the water and admire the beauty of the place. It would be great to trek this gorge sometime in the future. …….. 😉
nice report Sajid and the earlier one by Sridhara :ymapplause:
I want to mention another interesting aspect of the surroundings of the Snake Gorge.
Car dashboards were showing the outside temperature of 48+ degrees. Mine showed 50 degrees also, for few moments but dropped to 49 by the time i could click a picture of the display. Anyway. what I want to say is that we were driving thru real hot temperature, but a further drive of just 2 kms took us to the Snake Gorge. the temperatures changed dramatically and the surroundings of the Gorge were so pleasant :yesss: that we spent almost 45 minutes in the open. In fact, i had blow the whistle 3 times :(( before the participants got back to their cars in order to be ready to move the convoy forward.
Kudos to everybody who joined this memorable trip to Wadi Bani Awf and Jebel Shams, not to forget Wadi Ghul…the top lip of which we trekked.
The trek stats have been already been shared by Ajay Bhai, for most of us travelling from Dubai/ Sharjah it was a 1000 Kms+ drive in the 2 days of driving and we experienced speeds ranging from 138 kms/hour to as low as 12kms/hour crawling up the mountain tracks.
As already quoted the temperatures ranged from 50C to as low as 16C in the night…camping out.
The trek was memorable in more than a few ways, including the stupendous natural sights and the fascinating views that we had of the drop into the gorge of Wadi Ghul.
Thanks to Ajay Bhai, Sangeeta Bhaabhi & Arun for their guidance and hospitality.
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quote sridhara:Most memorable and challenging trip….The real challenge started on the 2nd day morning trek with all the ” Able bodied MEN” of DO coming out the comfort of their vehicles. :ymparty:………Most of the members had consumed more than their fair share of water stock. After a refreshing snack & coffee break we started our return journey.
@-) 8-} This trek demonstrated the fitness levels of all the men with out their machines. It also gave a practical insight in to the survival tactics required to be developed & effective utilization of life saving stocks during the critical situation, when we are likely to be stranded in an inhospitable terrain as we always love going to the desert.
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first of all, I want to propose a correction to what the above report says, about the “able bodied men” because we did have three ladies in the trekking party…… Bethan, Aastha and the little Clara 🙂 and all three did remarkably well, especially Clara. Any other child of her age would have got irritated in being restricted to the baby carrier for so long and in such tough scenario as it turned out to be on the return leg.
A lot has been written about how under-budgeted we were on water and that is indeed true. we were all sheer lucky to say the least, to have come out without any incident. thanks a lot to Sridhara and Reddy Garu to have spared the last few drops in their respective water bottles for Aastha. I really appreciate the gesture.
Now let me try to summarise the lessons that I have taken out of this trek:
– we need to carry at least 1 ltr of water per person for each hour of intended trek duration. in fact, 1.5 ltr should be advisable for the return leg;
– supplement the stock of water we carry with some Glucose, Pocari or similar drinks. if nothing else is available, plain sugar and salt will also do wonders
– start early. an attempt should be made to have done at least 1/3rd of the route before sun comes overhead and starts squeezing the liquids out of our body;
– whatever be the destination and the stock of water we carry, keep a watch on the water level at hand; and turn back if you have consumed more than 40% of the water you started with. this is because, we will require more energy replenishment on the return journey.Please feel free to add to the above points.
Look forward to have all “able bodied PARTICIPANTS” on the next “DO-Adventure Oman” trek on the last weekend of August. In any case, don’t waste money on getting a stress test done in the clinics, JOIN us for a TREK 😀
Thanks Ajay Bhai and Arun for excellently hosting us and showing us interesting areas of Oman. Thanks Ahmed Bhai for the trip and leading us to Oman and back. Thanks all other participants for excellent time.
Thanks all ladies for feeding us to have energy for drive and trek
Reddy
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