Mt. Sodom (Har Sdom) Traditional Cache
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Great View of the Dead Sea from the top of Mt. Sodom.
This cache is part of the 3 caches hidden along the circular Mt. Sodom Trail. See the Dead Sea Cache GC4TVKD for more info about how to get to the trail.
Geocacher SSABW Adds:
Mount Sodom or Jebel Usdum is a hill along the southwestern part of the Dead Sea in Israel, part of the Judean Desert Nature Reserve. Mount Sodom began its rise hundreds of thousands of years ago, and it continues to grow taller at a rate of 3.5 mm a year.
It is most remarkable because it is made almost entirely of halite, or rock salt. It is approximately five miles (8 km) long, three miles (5 km) wide, and 742 feet (226 m) above the Dead Sea water level, yet 557 feet (170 m) below world mean sea level. Because of weathering, sometimes portions become separated. One of these separate pillars has been labeled "Lot's wife", a reference to Lot's wife in the biblical account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
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