HbG to Amguid or Gara Khan (A5, A6, A10)

As you may have read here, the checkpoint at 4 Chemins may be blocking access to the routes above.
This was the case in late November - there was a barricade over the piste out of 4 chem - closed due to smugglers, it was said. Later I met a French guy later who avoided 4 Chemins by going west along the Oued Irharrhar (after the first descent, more or less 28 23 / 6 40, easy he said) and then down around Gour ben Houilet ('Hassi M' map, IGN 1:1m) and on the Gara Khan or Amguid. I also met some bikers in Djanet which were allowed to go out of 4 Chemins. When we came back out of Gara Khan via BoD there was no problem and I seem to recall the barricade across the piste was half missing compared to one month earlier.

If they ask at Hassi bel Guebbour say you're going to the warm spring just down the road or to BoD for your health. From BoD/Zaouia Sidi Moussa you can cut out west (latter part of A10, pretty sandy) and pick up the routes for Amguid or GK. There was no checkpoint out of BoD. Indeed, as with me, at HbG they may request you take a soldier back to BoD which will give you a perfect excuse to breeze past 4Chem and out of BoD once you've dropped the guy off.

If they don't let us past the barricade we'll be trying the Oued or BoD option in a week or two.

Chris S


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