Mt Zaghouan Summit By Night

This weekend was one those times when I plan something challenging with my friends.

We agreed to go night hiking towards the summit of Mt Zaghouan. The summit isn't that high (1295 m) but the route is kinda tough and keeping on track is challenging even with daylight.

There was some moonlight, even if we anly saw the moon during the last hour or so. The sky was bright and the stars shining. We even agreed to turn off our frontal lights and force our eyes to get used to the natural light however low is was. That worked for most of the road with very few exceptions when we had to use the lights to search for a sign on the road or to avoid something.

We left the car on a parking lot near the mountain and we started walking.

I don't know ewactly how long we walked, but I started recording at 10 pm when we left the road and entered a narrow route inside the mountain. From that point to the summit, the App recorded 8.18 Km which took us abouth three hours including the breaks we took along the way (2h 16 min if we don't count the breaks.

Maybe we could have made it in less time if we took the best rout but it wasn't easy to find at times because of the darkness. Or maybe I'm not as good a guide as I thought haha. Most of them are doing it for the first time so they were counting on me for direction. I did my best but I kind made it a little harder than it should be. 😬

That was on saturday. So most of the climb wasn't counted in this activity report. Only the last and hardest hour and the descent.

Once we got to the top, we made some photos, we ate a light second dinner, and we went to sleep by 2 am.

By 4 am we started to wake up in order to catch the sunrise, which was legendary from that spot.

Another group of hikers joined us right before sunrise. Well, most of them did. Because some of them missed it.

We had our breakfas, took a group photo with the sign and started going down.

It took us only two and a half hours to reach the car, including a long break near a well where we drank water and refilled our bottles and rested.

After that five of my companians left, leaving me ad Elyes in Zaghouan. We had a second breakfas ( hobbit style), drank some coffee and went home.

This report was published via Actifit app (Android | iOS). Check out the original version here on actifit.io

Hiking, Walking