First half of Day 1 - Mount Toubkal Hike

After we finished breakfast at eight am, with the snow covered mountains in sight, we drove from Asni to our starting point in Imlil (1680m) to meet our mules and guide. There is one Chief in each village, he manages the workload schedule of every mule used for mountain treks.

Looking and feelin' happy!

The people were always very nice, main language, arabic, Berber in these parts, french as a second language with some english words here and there.

Off and trekking we go. Our guide was most amazing. (His contact details to follow)

Our friends, Lara and Remy joined us.

We had 12 miles ahead of us and 2000m of altitude to gain.

On the initial ascent there are many stores and convincing salesmen, if we stopped every at each one or bought every item we liked we would have never made it out of the gate! There are shops from Imlil to the last one about 2200m.

We stopped for tea at, what i used as a land mark, "white mosque village". Look at the solar panels!!!