Chaplog tries hard In which an ageing climber comes to terms with life closer to the ground.

Derwent Water – lots of it on Saturday 18th April

Gorges du Dades

More photographs from Morocco

The entrance of the Souk close to Tinerhir

Click here to see some photographs of Tinehir and the Gorges du Todhra

A Cattle Egret in the Palmery Tinehir

We walked around the lower Palmery before heading for the Gorges du Dades.

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Todhra Gorge
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Saturday Mesouga – Tinehir

An early start in the dunes – note length of shadow

As we walked towards the dunes at first light there was a few clouds. We headed for the largest dune that was about an hour away.

I took a few photographs in the evening and the morning.

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Friday 28th N’Kob – Mesouga

I did two hours on the bike Av Heart rate 71% 19.8 Km/Hr

the sand dunes at Mesouga – not overcrowded
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Thursday 27th March N’Kob to Bab n Ali and back to N’Kob 43Km on a piste

The piste to Bab n Ali

We were getting into the routine of early starts to avoid the heat. On the map it said cascades and had a green line a sure sign of good views.
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Lynne cycling close to the Draa valley

We set the alarm for 6:30 hoping to get breakfast for 7:00. Surprisingly the day was a little misty. We passed a lunar landscape of black basalt.
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Ait Benhaddou

We stayed in a hotel in Ouarzazate for the night and planned a ride for the next day. Our intention had been to cycle to Tamdaght and beyond. We left the car at Ait Benhaddou (a tourist spot) after driving past the film sets and headed up the valley. The road turned to piste very quickly and a rough one at that. (more…)

The hairpins towards the top of the Col du Tichka

Getting out of Marrakech was not straightforward. I practiced it in February last year and did it successfully last Easter. This year it just did not work.
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