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17 Sep 2021
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Something for the weekend
I happened to look again at this route and either I missed it, or now I see (most clearly on Apple Maps) tracks leading north to Bou Skour mine just a few 100 metres north of the final yellow switchback before the 1600m point where my track from Agdz ended in 2019. A very thin track (red) may even actually connect them.
Prospecting tracks? You can see a white hut or vehicle? on Apple.
The second image is Google zoomed out
More confirmation (3rd image below) from local mining sources that less than 2km over the watershed links to northside prospecting tracks going NNE to BouSkour or, with a bit more winding around, NNW towards Skoura.
Both link up with MH23 from Nekob.
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19 Nov 2022
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MZ1 Jebel Saghro
Still not tried this link route over from Agdz, but now that the once popular MH4 over Jebel Saghro is fully sealed, I think what i now will call MZ1 is set to be the new classic crossing of the massif from Nekob to Skoura (~100km; 95% piste).
I’ve just ridden it a 3rd time, a perfect mountain piste that can be done in any vehicle, capped off with some tasty tafernoute bread at the Zizmo roadhouse.
Route description and more pics:
https://sahara-overland.com/2021/10/...ghro-crossing/
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Tried this route again today but I think I may have missed my chance.
The ' unusually good but little used track into the hills' is no longer unusually good; now just a moto trail serving a couple of remote small holdings. I got to a goat pound, the last dwelling (N30.80502° W6.37686°) by which point it looked like no vehicle had gone beyond for ages, unlike in 2019.
Whatever they were doing up there - prospecting? - they've stopped, and if the track has become disused on this side, it won't be any different on the other side until nearer Bou Skour.
I also noticed it's a 200-m climb in the 2km of the red link track ( sat image). If it averages 1:10, it's probably a lot more at times.
So I think I will take my exploring somewhere else. Loads of new-to-me tracks to check out on J Saro.
Fyi MZ1 has become really quite sandy on the axle-churned switchbacks since I first did in 2019. Only a problem for motos with road tyres.
When I was there last month I noticed regular piles of darker dirt along the track's edges at the eastern end, west of the palm gorge. Something may be afoot.
Pics: Descent to last dwelling;
Beyond last dwelling
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17 Feb 2024
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ground truth
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OSM has a maze of footpaths in that area and several unconnected sections of piste.
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Tell me about it. I've just set about properly checking/adding the tracks of my M4 routes to OSM, starting on Saghro. I've seen these unconnected scraps all over and which really ruin a map as, of course, they don't make sense unless you believe in magic carpets.
I think many are mislabeled game trails which, as we know, come and go.
The culprit on Saghro seems to be an Austrian OSM-er who's been merrily adding them for years (as well as real data, tbh), using in places some sort of LIDAR-aided vision to discern 'paths' where often nothing is visible on aerial. Often his unconnected paths get an 'Issue' warning/label, rightly saying path must be part of a network. Worst still, looking in the High Atlas, he's not the only one adding what they think is a 45-m path miles from anywhere.
And yet there are loads of actual paths/tracks visible on aerial in Saghro that can't have cropped up overnight that he's ignored.
Hopefully he's had his fun in Morocco and found another hobby.
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