Israel National Trail

Latest Blog Posts - Israel National Trail

• 47th day (Further Than Expected)
  on May 4, 2012
  Benad was ready and waiting at 5 a.m., leading Yoni and his car to the end point, then returning him to us so we could walk out of Mitzpeh Ramon. Today's leg was an unexpected bonus. Yesterday's extra, unplanned 15 km on the shvil allowed us today to...
• 46th day (Change In Plan)
  on Apr 26, 2012
  Remember us? It's been a long time. For the first time in 3 years on the shvil we were forced to postpone a shvil leg due to the weather. Not unbearably hot desert weather but cold and wet March weather. And then along came Pesach and suddenly we've...
• 45th day (Shvil Maturity)
  on Feb 14, 2012
  And so there we were, getting out of the same car at the same place that we'd been 18 hours earlier. Yesterday was an easy stroll north, today a hard grunt south. With this in mind, we were out of the Midreshet Ben Gurion Hilton by 5.45 and had foot...
• 44th day (Mysterious Messages in the Desert)
  on Feb 5, 2012
  You have days like this. Short, nothing legs that link one interesting place to another. It would have been just as good if Captain Kirk had spoken into his wrist and said "beam me 13 km along the shvil, Scotty". But this would not do for the shvil e...
• 43rd day (The Truman-Shvil Show)
  on Jan 15, 2012 in the small machtesh Israel National trail shvil yisrael
  that white dot is the blimpIt's the first week of January. We completed 2 shvil days in December. This is the season that through shvillers supposedly start in Eilat, walking the desert in winter so as to arrive up north in early spring. In contrary...
• 42nd day (The Big Fin)
  on Jan 7, 2012 in Israel National trail shvil yisrael
  Walking the shvil, the usual aim for the day is to start at point A, arrive at the end at point B and thus get a bit closer to the final goal, Eilat. Occasionally, the aim of the day's walk is merely to tidy up some loose unfinished portions or to co...
• 41st day (Down Into the Machtesh Hakatan)
  on Dec 14, 2011
  One of the repercussions of finishing late the previous day was a reality check. We had originally planned to do a long 20 km through the Machtesh Hakatan, finishing the day with a climb out of the machtesh up Ma'aleh Eli which is a very long, very s...
• 40th day (Blue)
  on Dec 13, 2011 in Israel National trail shvil yisrael
  Sometimes things just don't go to plan. We met up late, there were traffic jams along the way and the morning just didn't flow. If I believed in omens, then the morning's tardiness certainly would have been one. It was close to eleven by the time...
• 39th day (Creek Beds)
  on Nov 5, 2011 in Israel National trail shvil yisrael
  4.45 muster. 5.30 Eli's taxi. 6.00 Arad airstrip. Today's walk started with clockwork efficiency. Just as well, since the shvil painter's inefficiency caused us to waste any time that we may have gained by getting out of bed at such an ungodly hour.
• 38th day (Arad)
  on Oct 27, 2011
  At 12.30 on the 14th July we arrived to Yoni's car, parked not far from Beit Govrin and said goodbye to the shvil for a summer break. Perhaps it wasn't a teary farewell, but after 3 months of no shvil,  we were glad to get back to the shvil...

Loading Comments...

Comments

• {ds_PageNumber}
• {ds_PageNumber}

{ds_PageTotalItemCount} commentcomments

{pvComments::user_name}

{pvComments::date}

Delete 

{pvComments::comment}

Post a Comment