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I originally went to Morocco to climb, but even in the early years discovered the greatest pleasure was wandering off, pack on back, and exploring on and on, seeing an alluring distant summit, heading for it, and from its summit seeing others, on and on … The ultimate experience of this came in 1995 when a quartet of us trekked from one end of the Atlas to the other over 96 days. (The route, nicknamed GTAM95 (Great Traverse of the Atlas Mountains 1995) is described in my book The Mountains Look on Marrakech (see Appendix B), referred to as ‘HB’ in this book). And that simply showed us dozens of new possible trips, making the subsequent years the best of all. We also, early on in our exploration of the Atlas, discovered that mules were available to hire and carry rucksacks, food and camping gear. This lifts trekking in the Atlas to a unique level of pleasure. It’s a pity that the system doesn’t operate to the CIC hut on Ben Nevis.

The Isli camping spot below Jbel Msadrid, Fazaz distant (Route 5)