The Israel National Trail stops at Dan. However, Dan is not the northern end of the state of Israel (well – it is if you don’t go any westward. But after all the road that’s been covered, stopping in Dan just didn’t feel RIGHT). So I carried on. I already published the journey westward (climbing up the Golan Heights) and the beginning of the northward journey, towards the Hermon mount., BUT - unfortunately, my dog died – and so i didn’t feel like carrying on, even though I was a single day’s journey from the end.
Accompanied by three of my friends, we took on the final stage of the climb. The trail begins at the parking lot of the ski resort, right at the beginning of the Golan trail (I’ll probably attempt it next spring. stay tuned 
) but where the Golan trail veers to the right (and clims down the mountain, towards the heights) this trail takes a left turn – and began the climb.
On the map, it is quite a short trail, about 4 km (one way). But the trail is one of the steepest in Israel – reaching the top of the ski resort. It took us about five hours to climb up and down again.
The good thing about us being in such elevation (around 2000 meters) is that spring (and summer) arrives later here than in the rest of the country – and so we were able to see some flowers, even though down it is the end of May.
