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The Scarab

Name: The Scarab
Rating: 4.0

5.10+ YDS 6b+ French 21 Ewbanks VII+ UIAA 20 ZA E3 5b British

Routes in Jebel Rum

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	Lionheart T 5.10+ 6b+ 21 VII+ 20 E3 5b
	Pillar of Wisdom T 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
	Hammad's Route T 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
	Abu Khalifa T 5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b
	Shai-Hulud T 5.10d 6b+ 21 VII+ 21 E3 5b
	Scarab, The T 5.10+ 6b+ 21 VII+ 20 E3 5b
	Muad'Dib T 5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b
	Flight of Fancy T 5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b
	Towering Inferno T 5.10+ 6b+ 21 VII+ 20 E3 5b
	Inshallah Factor T 5.11b 6c 23 VIII- 23 E3 5c PG13
	Troubador T 5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b
	Goldfinger T 5.10- 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
	Rock Empire T 5.13a/b 8a 29 IX+ 29 E7 6c R
	Black Magic T 5.10a/b 6a+ 19 VI+ 19 E2 5b PG13
Unsorted Routes:
	Eye of Allah T 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c

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Type:	Trad, 450 ft (136 m), 4 pitches
FA:	Lani Chapko and Sam Boyce March 2025
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Access Issue: Entrance fee required; you are also supposed to register with the Tourist Police if climbing Details

As of May 2022, the entry fee to Wadi Rum was 5JD/person. The alternative to paying the entrance fee is to buy a Jordan Pass. If you get the Jordan Pass before you arrive in Jordan, your US visa fee ($56 US) is waived and the Jordan Pass allows access to places like Petra, Shobak Castle, etc.

At the Wadi Rum entrance complex is a Tourism Police office. If you are climbing at Wadi Rum, you are supposed to register with the police and give them a photocopy of your passport. Bringing a spare photocopy to give them saves some time, as they don't have a photocopier of their own.

Description

This route climbs the series of splitter cracks to the left of the start for Hammad's Route. After a lackluster approach pitch, you are rewarded with 3 amazing pitches of sustained crack climbing. One of the best crack routes in Rum!

CAUTION: The ledges/gullies above pitches 2 and 3 are filled with rubble, take extreme caution when moving over them. Consider not climbing behind others. And DO NOT rappel the route.

P1 100' 5.9 A sandy approach pitch takes you up to the base of an overhanging off width. Gear belay at poor stance. It is also possible to climb the left facing corner that takes you to the same point (better protected but longer)

P2 80' 5.10+ "The Sandy Burke" Climb easy terrain to the roof. Surmount the tricky OW roof. Once above the OW, get a directional piece and work left on a thin slab to a bolt. Reachy face climbing and stemming takes you past the bolt back into the corner. Belay on a great ledge on bolts.

P3 115' 5.10 All of your suffering has been for this! An amazing 100' splitter hand crack. It slowly tapers from 3's to .5's for a pumpy layback finish.

P4 115' 5.10- Very carefully ramble up another choss gully to gain the base of a thin crack. A short bit of face climbing gets you established. Follow the thin crack to a ledge, then an easy slabby bit up and right (bolt) gets you to another crack. Thin hands takes you to the top!

Descent: Do not rappel the route. Go down the standard Hammad's rappels. This takes you within 100' of the base.