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Tag: Shaun Grey

Day 8 - Are we nearly there yet dad? Riding through an alpine meadow filled with yellow flowers of the plant Woad (Isatis tinctoria). On the climb up to the high point of our trip, the Tizi-n-Eddi pass (9,606 ft) from Oukaïmeden

Day 8 – Oukaïmeden to Imlil

by Jon Slade2015 Morocco High Atlas Traverse by MTBPosted on 4 June 20153 March 2021No Comments

We’re on the road at 8:30am, after I lose the key to the bike locks for half an hour – doh! Everyone is pretty annoyed, me included. Despite the rest days, this has been a very testing trip to say the least, and occasional frayed tempers, while rare, are inevitable

Rest Day A - My magnifent room in the keep! Time to recuperate for the day, as mountain-desert air gently wafts in.At Kasbah Tigmi-n-Oufella, Anguelz. © Steve Woodward

Rest Day & Transfer – Anguelz to Aghbalou

by Jon Slade2015 Morocco High Atlas Traverse by MTBPosted on 31 May 20153 March 2021No Comments

When I wake I feel quite weak still but am ready to eat. Hussein rustles up some pancakes, which taste a-ma-zing! Shaun and Steve are also feeling the effects of yesterday – even though they could probably have ridden today, we decide it would do us all good to have

Day 6 - We made it through the rock cleft! Near Tamzrit. © Shaun Grey

Day 6 – Toufghine to Anguelz

by Jon Slade2015 Morocco High Atlas Traverse by MTBPosted on 30 May 20153 March 2021No Comments

The big one. Wow, this was a hard day, one that almost broke the trip. At 8am it is already hot and windless, the sun blazing down from a cloudless sky. We climb for a few miles up a road, accompanied by a friendly dog that appears from the undergrowth

Day 5 - Smiley Si Moh at his serving hatch - we mostly bought orange liquids full of sugar!Near Ichbbakene, Tassaout valley. © Shaun Grey

Day 5 – Near Ichbbakene to Toufghine

by Jon Slade2015 Morocco High Atlas Traverse by MTBPosted on 29 May 20153 March 2021No Comments

As day dawns I’m struck by just how magical a place this is: the valley is wild and spectacular, with towering peaks either side and no other dwellings. There’s a stream running over the bare earth, just a couple of feet from the house, where we all washed our socks

Day 4 - Thanks to Jamal, our host & fixer!Leaving Flilou La Maison Berbère, Agouti, ready for another big day. © Steve Woodward

Day 4 – Agouti to near Ichbbakene

by Jon Slade2015 Morocco High Atlas Traverse by MTBPosted on 28 May 20153 March 2021No Comments

It’s an early start, for this is going to be a big day. After a few miles, we leave tarmac and navigation is initially tricky – back in the UK I’d been forced to use satellite imagery to plan a route through the scrub, because there are no tracks on

Day 2 - With our amiable host from last night, José. Setting off from Anergui. © Steve Woodward

Day 2 – Anergui to Zawyat Ahansal

by Jon Slade2015 Morocco High Atlas Traverse by MTBPosted on 26 May 20153 March 2021No Comments

Despite our comfortable room we awake early, not feeling that well rested, knowing we have a big and particularly remote day ahead. Having checked with José on arrival, we’d determined that the Assif Melloul river gorge was passable, just! The word ‘river’ in Berber, the local first language of the

Day 1 - Pit stop under a brooding sky. Just beyond Tasraft village. © Shaun Grey

Day 1 – Imilchil to Anergui

by Jon Slade2015 Morocco High Atlas Traverse by MTBPosted on 25 May 20153 March 2021No Comments

We’re pedalling – wow, this is really happening! As we ride clear of Imilchil, climbing steadily towards Lake Tislit on a paved road, the landscape opens up, feeling remote and empty straightaway, with steep, scrubby slopes teetering up to sizeable mountains either side of us. We are in the Haut

Day 4 - Approaching the village of Ghougoult, in preparation for meeting the mules! ...© Steve Woodward

Arrival & Transfer – UK to Marrakesh to Imilchil

by Jon Slade2015 Morocco High Atlas Traverse by MTBPosted on 23 May 20153 March 2021No Comments

Touchdown! Blimey, we are actually in Morocco! My first time in Africa. After a lengthy wait in the endless queues at immigration we meet our drivers: we are in one vehicle and our hefty, boxed bicycles in a small truck. French is the second language in Morocco, as much of

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