2022-06-11 Jisr El-Qadi Loop
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 7.62 mi
- Elevation gain
- 1,355 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 1,355 ft
- Max elevation
- 1,224 ft
- TrailRank
- 59
- Min elevation
- 542 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- 5 hours 15 minutes
- Coordinates
- 1242
- Uploaded
- June 13, 2022
- Recorded
- June 2022
near Jisr al Qâdi, Mont-Liban (Libanon)
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Itinerary description
Jisr el Qadi is a village on the Damour River between Beiteddine and Souk el-Gharb. Jisr El-Qadi is a compound name where “Jisr” means bridge and El-Qadi means judge. A Mameluke period judge and prince named Zayn ALddeen Al-Tannoukhi built a bridge over the Damour River in that area and it became known as Jisr El-Qadi. Where there is water, there is life; being built on a riverbank, the town is a postcard of Lebanon’s countryside.
Anywhere you walk in Jisr El –Qadi, you create a beautiful trail. The trail started right from where the bridge was built (a new bridge replaced the first one but remnants of the first bridge is still standing) where we walked on pavement and uphill for about three km until we reached a dirt road snaking on the shoulder of a cliff overlooking Damour valley and pine forests. The road has many kinds of fruit trees making it a desired trail all year round. The dirt road took us to Kfarmatta, another beautiful village, and to the Fizr (split) rock – a mega structure of a rock (30+ meters high) where you make your way in the split. At the end of Fizr, you take a left and the trail turns into a forest by the riverbank trail. On this trail, you see all kinds of green, stream water from Damour River snaking among huge rocks that were smoothed over by millions of years of a constant battle with a soft yet insistent flow of water.
A great trail that, if you want to sweat, could be done in reverse.
Anywhere you walk in Jisr El –Qadi, you create a beautiful trail. The trail started right from where the bridge was built (a new bridge replaced the first one but remnants of the first bridge is still standing) where we walked on pavement and uphill for about three km until we reached a dirt road snaking on the shoulder of a cliff overlooking Damour valley and pine forests. The road has many kinds of fruit trees making it a desired trail all year round. The dirt road took us to Kfarmatta, another beautiful village, and to the Fizr (split) rock – a mega structure of a rock (30+ meters high) where you make your way in the split. At the end of Fizr, you take a left and the trail turns into a forest by the riverbank trail. On this trail, you see all kinds of green, stream water from Damour River snaking among huge rocks that were smoothed over by millions of years of a constant battle with a soft yet insistent flow of water.
A great trail that, if you want to sweat, could be done in reverse.
Waypoints
Intersection
926 ft
Go Left
Pavement ends
988 ft
Go Right
End of pavement
Intersection
1,019 ft
Go Left
Intersection
1,077 ft
Go Right
Intersection
1,224 ft
Go Left
PVMNT OFF
Panorama
1,107 ft
Lebanese Old Stone House
bougainvillea red covers the entrance of this house. A natural painting.
Intersection
963 ft
Go Right
Intersection
578 ft
Go Left
Go left right after the Fizr; there is an old stone house - you won't miss it.
River
Ruins
662 ft
Watermill
Actually, this mill is still in excellent shape; all it needs is a vision to convert it to a lodge.
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