On a rest day in Wadi Rum, the roosters wake us and Black Magic gets us climbing. The higher we go, the better the pitches get, right up to the abseils.
It’s a rest day today. No alarm! The roosters will see to that anyway.
To fill part of the day, we go for a spin on Black Magic in Wadi Rum. A lovely surprise: the higher we climb, the better it gets! It flows much more easily than our previous outings and we’re having a great time.
Howard’s topo doesn’t match what we found that day. From R6, by the tree, we traverse 25 metres left to a fine crack along a detached flake. We belay 25 metres higher, in line with the crack, at what the topo calls R8. It matches again from there.
On the descent we abseiled from R11, R10 and R9 to the terrace. We walked across to the tree, then made a 45-metre abseil from it. After that we followed the cairns down the Bedouin descent via Al Thalamiyah.
A route well worth doing.
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