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Great trip & photos! Amazing shot of that spiderman roof.

Nice!!

I think something called Hanging Gardens at Broughton is a fun 5.6 until the last "pitch" (they're all very short) which I think is harder or A0.

32 pitches - that looks like some fun! Nice TR Michael. cheers. PS "If I get some time I'll try to make a list. " I'd love to see that list.

some amazing stuff here but that last one - holy shit g orton, that's the best shot of the monster I've ever seen...where was it taken from??

can't agrue with that! those 2 wks in Jordan were like some AA desert retreat (climbing makes up for it though - mostly)

Looks like a great fun trip. If you want to slim down in Spain, you should go to Aragon... personal opinion

Cool outing!

Amazing stuff John!! It boggles my mind how much you guys can get done in just a few days (out of the office )

great stuff Wayne - esp. like that last photo!

thanks for the kind words guys.

Trezlar & knock off sundown (9), tale of 2 shitties (10a) & chimney de chelly (10a). = nice full day

another random bit...holy trad trinity in a sea of sport routes: toys in the attic (9), hesistation blues (10b), & toy blocks (10a). can tr the 2nd by leading the 1st & can (probably) tr the third by leading some sport (7 or 8) to the left around the corner. always thought that toys in the attic was a great route but the bird shit keeps telling me otherwise

a warm rock roadtrip idea for early spring...stop when the sky clears: city of rock -> moab -> zion -> red rocks -> cochise -> el potrero bring your passport for the last 2 options (note: have not driven this last leg since the start of the mexican civil war)

hey thanks! It's really a great place (esp. if you like multipitch trad routes in the 5.8 to 5.10 range) & it was the interaction with the people in the village that really made the whole experience special. I think you might be able to find a room to rent out from the Bedouin (we heard of some fairly steep prices when we were looking at that option... ~200JD/week...remember it's about 1.45 USD/JD) but there are no real established motel type things in the village as far as I know. If you don't want to lug a tent, I'm sure you can rent one from one of the Bedouin or use one at the rest house (they had 4 set up & were usually empty).

Trip: Wadi Rum, Jordan - Camels, Sand, and Hummus. Date: 3/6/2012 Trip Report: Photo TR of a 9 day stay in Wadi Rum Jordan. For words and more pics, see here. . A dromedary (Arabian camel). Member of the family Camelidae whose habitat includes North Africa and Middle East and whose diet consists primarily of cardboard boxes (Feb. 2012): Leading the money pitch of Troubador: a beautiful corner splitter (6a+) in perfect rock that goes from red to blue Camalots in size (Feb. 2012): Topping out on pitch 4 of Merlin's Wand. Great rock and fun climbing (Feb. 2012): Merlin's Wand (left crack) in all of its 5-pitch glory. Shirley can be seen on the right rapping down (Feb. 2012): Shirley hiking near the Rest House with a Bedouin giving his camels some morning exercise (Feb. 2012): Shirley styling the crux pitch (#3 & clocking in at 6b) of The Star Of Abu Judaidah - finger crack (intermittent) with some delicate stemming (Feb. 2012): Leading pitch 6. This is the other 6b pitch of the route but it felt much easier than the finger crack of pitch 3 (Feb. 2012): A rare (& wonderful) tourist free view of The Treasury in Petra (Feb. 2012): He lives (& tours the world it seems)! So you better watch your fucking mouth comrade (Feb. 2012): Shirley topping out on Orange Sunshine (Feb. 2012): Yours truly at the spacious ledge belay atop pitch 4 of The Pillar Of Wisdom (Feb. 2012): Shirley on the domes just above the top out point of The Pillar Of Wisdom (Feb. 2012): The sandstorms we saw during our last 2 days in Wadi Rum (Feb. 2012): Shirley leading pitch 4 of Inferno (Feb. 2012): Camels in the desert (March 2012):

...you can TR Original Sin (10c) & the other 10c (on right) by leading Blitzkrieg (9)

RTL was very good imho. then went back & did dirty sanchez which was ho hum...maybe the harder stuff is better the dihedral on rtl: & this is the hanging boulder field you're climbing under:

" can you climb in May there? Is it still wet?" in may '09 it was dry (&hot)

1. good location (nopo or hillsboro would really hit the spot ) 2. cracks 3. crimpy tile wall like prg

great stuff & beautiful pic's!

i suspect it has more to do with not wanting their shit to walk away on them while climbing than claiming routes. nice tr.

great stuff - inspirational...gotta make a liquor store stop on the way home. is a fun tr too btw.

thanks for good words. been wasting time on a blog (tr's): chossclimbers

a good year for getting out & seeing what else there is to climb. put another 50k miles on the car...sorry about the format but i either have this size pic's or thumbnails some desert stuff early on, like this streaker spire in sedona (hardest 5.7 I've sampled to date): scared the shit out of ourselves with another quick in/out to stone mtn in NC: some local fun couple red rock outings... ...culminating with resolution arete got out to BC for the first time & gimli's s ridge was the highpoint: yak check was also pretty good though: failed many times in the sawtooths this year incl getting rained off splitgerber march & slavaged that trip with a quick in/out to montana: finally did Beckey direct (hard & not so very cleanly done...) got our first taste of climbing outside of the western world in Madagascar: hard climbing (for us) & sparse bolting ( a paradise for those climbing 11+)...pretty stressful but beautiful for sure: went to potrero chico for the 1st time & got some multi-pitch - like tsaranoro except with 2-3X bolt density & endless bucket of 5.10ish routes stuff we reminisce most fondly about is probably things we did with friedns, eg rooster post work, l-worth, small red rocks routes. must be getting old as good company is as important as climbing it seems.