Day 2: Moshav Yiftach to Bar-Am Forest

After a much needed night of sleep and a morning of heavily taped feet, we set off for our next destination, the Bar-Am Forest.



Today was absolutely stunning, as the trail wound through forests and bunkers left over from the 1948 War of Independence.





We hit the Naftali Ridge today, south of Kiryat Shmona, and the Metzudat Coach memorial at the UN compound in the Upper Galilee.





Bradley managed once again to find us a place to stay as we found a kibbutz worker who secured us (what looked like) a transient crack den to sleep for the evening. Promises of an open pub night proved to be unfounded because kibbutz outsiders were not allowed. Kibbutz Bar-Am is one of the few remaining "old school" kibbutzim around Israel. How? Nobody actually has any money of their own here. Socialism, it's fantastic!



-Jeremy