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Originally Posted by viatormundi
...In our second day, we were thinking of doing the following route: Midelt, Imilchil, Gorges du Todrá, Tinerhir, Erfoud and finally Merzouga... Do you think this route can be done in one day without getting stressed?
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And in the afternoon??
Seriously guys, this is far too ambitious. This needs at least two days and preferably three.
I have a system of evaluating pistes (tracks) according to their difficulty--green is absolute novice, blue is reasonably easy, red requires offroad skills and black shouldn't be done as a solo bike or with luggage.
The Midelt to Imilchil section is a long day in itself. It comprises 45km of red piste, then 40km of mixed tarmac/gravel road, then another 45km of red piste. And my 'red' classification is for good weather when there hasn't been recent rain. The first section of red (Cirque du Jaffar) has severe dropoffs, the second section has 60 river crossings.
I have thousands of km experience piste riding in Morocco and was on a 1200GSA. Inexperienced riders, two-up, will lead to disaster.
Imilchil to Agoudal is tarmac, then it's a 30-km rocky piste from Agoudal to near Ait Hani, then tarmac from there to Tinerhir. But sometimes the Todra Gorge floods... YouTube - Crossing the Todra, Oct 2008
Tim
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Last edited by Tim Cullis; 12 Feb 2009 at 14:15.
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