Lake Iriki
 

We are planning a trip in March 2016
Off Road from Zagora to Dakhla in two Land Rover Disco
We crossed Lake Iriki in September 2015 but found it too mucky/soft from rain and had to use the stone piste which was not pleasant
Has anyone crossed Lake Iriki in March and what conditions can we expect ?
Does it get soft/wet from the snow melt?

Thanks
Maurice

The stone piste is awful!

Almost all the snow that falls in Morocco disappears through sublimation, i.e. goes from solid to water vapour without passing through the liquid state.

I don't think the Lak has had water from the rivers in many decades as most of the water is extracted for irrigation much higher up. When I was near M'hamid a few months back they were building a small dam to capture any last dribbles.

So it's rain/hail only. No way to predict conditions so many weeks ahead but it's been lovely and dry recently.

There's definitely softer sections and some more hard packed. The line of four 'tea stops' stretching WSW from N29 56 53.8 W6 21 58.4 are on the hard section. See satellite image. Once you get to about N29 50 23.6 W6 37 49.6 you could head south to about N29 44 45.5 W6 35 22.9 and then west to Tata.

Tim

Thanks

Maurice