Mountain objectives for 2016

ghaznavid wrote: when it is getting dark and you still have more than 2 hours of walking left for the day. Actually getting up really early is also tough.

Surely out of the Topic, but which hours are in a real darkness (sunrise & sunset)?

It depends on the time of year, but basically 5AM to 7PM in December, 7AM to 5PM in June.

As-salamu alaykum

Greetings from Oman !

I have moved here for a 12 month work contract so looking forward to exploring the local mountain ranges.

Have my eye on this 3000m summit:

Jabal Shams (Sun Mountain)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jebel_Shams

www.omantourism.gov.om/wps/portal/mot/tourism/oman/details/!ut/p/a1/jdBNDoIwEAXgs3iCvhYouCxQoOFPrY3YjWFlSBRdGM9vJXEpMLtJvjfJPGJJR-zYv4dr_xoeY3_77pZftmUoNQNHW8UhlDYF1Xns5Y3vwNmBJBeFH1YA4jKBKuW-PHo1haDr8u1hr7NG-sjTwOV12BgTSIB56_L4MwJL-ROxE-FNVu1kStFGFI5ENdc68cCCBeCzBdD-LsyVNIG5FiYw8-bzbkyHQQ1KbD7USEEt/dl5/d5/L2dJQSEvUUt3QS80SmlFL1o2XzlLN0VTMjA2ME81NzEwSVNQUTBLRUwxR1A3/?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/wps/wcm/connect/mot_english_lib/mot/experience/nature/mountains/Jabal+Shams

Happy Hiking

kliktrak wrote: Have my eye on this 3000m summit: Jabal Shams (Sun Mountain)

Good luck - looking forward to the photos and the writeup

Good luck Mr. Kliktrak, sir!

not as awesome than your home country but you may have these two itineries,have nice trips there.
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fr.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=12032984

A friend of mine that lives in Oman recently mentioned that after having explored all the high peaks there he was impressed. And this is from a guy that's been around.

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So we are almost 25% of the way through the year, how is everyone going with their stated goals?

Kind of feels like I have barely been to the Berg this year, but the 132km and 11 khulus bagged so far this year (mostly repeats) - I guess that isn't a terrible start

I should knock goal #1 off the list this weekend - hitting Lotheni with Biomech and Hobbit this weekend, and I hit 2 Vergelegen passes with AndrewR a few weeks back. I am upping one of my goals - the "all the KZN and Free State non-technical khulus" goal has been changed to "all the non-technical khulus".

I have knocked off 25% of the outstanding kgolos, so doing well there. Have plans in place to quietly knock off a few more passes, khulus and kgolos soon.

I have a map on order. When that arrives, the October mission moves into "official" status.

Now that I am getting in some quality time at City Rock Jhb, I have added a new climbing goal. Location is a secret, but it will be very hard and on tiny gear - eish!