weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Not much explaining to do here in this set: we are making our way down on the mostly narrow, fairly rough gravel and rock-strewn mountain road, frequently with sheer cliffs on both side of the road and have quite a few white-knuckle moments - while I am a fairly avid and adventurous driver myself, I was glad that I did not have to sit behind the steering wheel on this segment of the trip.

In a couple of photos, we find the "blue rocks" that some viewers in the earlier segments were mentioning.

Note that all of these pictures were taken from a moving car - whereby the word "moving" is a very generous label: leaping, jumping, shuddering, twisting and turning would basically be more appropriate descriptions.

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1 - Driving through the rugged Al Hajar mountains

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2 - Here we get the wide view and look down to possibly a road work camp

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3 - Twists and turns and different hues in the mountains

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4 - Great view onto contorted layers

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5 - Close-up view of a section of the road, at center a ravine cut by periodic water flows

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6 - The ever-changing panorama continues

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7 - Lord of the Rocks: this goat might be wondering what these crazy humans are doing in his kingdom

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8 - A changing hue in the light of the sun

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9 - A trickle of free-flowing water amidst ocher and blue tinted rocks: at left, our road leads through a calm water bed which could be a raging river when it is or was raining

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10 - "Houston, we got a problem …." - passing a bunch of ascending cars is not an easy manoeuvre in this narrow location

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Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Nice!

angler Loc: StHelens England

Excellent set Joe.

NMGal Loc: NE NM

Gorgeous scenery, Joe. About how many miles did you have to travel on that wagon path?

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thank you very much Bill

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thank you very much Jim!

azted Loc: Las Vegas, NV.

Ya gotta love the GOAT!

RobertW Loc: Breezy Point, New York

We drove that road in 3 LandRovers, almost always in 4 wheel and love gear. It’s as hairy as driving in the West of Ireland and Wales used to be!!!—-BUT worth the effort. Many thanks again for soldiering on and recording your trek!!

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thank you Barbara - I am with you: Gorgeous and wild!

As to the distance, tough to say, I even looked at Google map and found the road from the mountain top, where the asphalt road stops down to the bottom of the valley where "civilization" returns - Google refused to give me the distance for the descent through Wadi Bani Awf, instead showed a "huge" detour 695 km/430 miles. I would very roughly guess that the distance was about 30-40 miles. It is easier to say how "long" it took us, as I can look at the time the photos were taken: it took us about 2:50 hours, including maybe 40 minutes for our picnic lunch break in the middle of the descent. So on the average going about 15-20 miles per hour sounds about right.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Wonderful landscape work, Joe!

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thank you Ted for looking in on the trip again! Yes, these goats were omnipresent and really added some "live" character to the rocky landscape - I loved them too and probably showed way too many in the past presentations. I believe there is only one more to come and then that's it for the goats!

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thanks, glad I could rekindle some memories Robert!

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thank you Mike for your kind comment - yeah, I loved it over there!

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

Awesome road. Great images.

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thank you very much for looking in on the ongoing travelogue and your kind comment!