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saw Tim at Todra, not able to cross river even with bikes...
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We got across about 1030.
Flooding at Merzouga (this is the ruins of Riad Maria)
Nina crossing the Todra on her 1200GS
Hunting for neolithic remains
4000-year old rock paintings
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Todra To Dades
Our first attempts at driving pistes in Morocco. Fantastic experience
We followed a few pistes from Sahara Overland from Foum Zguid to Zagora we worked our way south, having left Marrakech through the Atlas over Tizi n' Test, working our way east to form a round trip via Tata, Foum Zguid, Zagora, M'hmid.
Towards the end of out 6 day trip, we attempted the piste from todra to dades in a toyota prado in mid october. We received local info about rain a few weeks earlier but reports were good for crossing this piste in 3-4hours without danger
We got so far after passing through oued's , after parts of the trail had collapsed from rain and directions from outside of the vehicle were needed
We go so far and after 2 and half hours had to turn back after the road had collapsed. There was no way through, unless on a bike.
Anyone else experience the same trail recently. We didn't pass another vehicle for the 5 hours we were gone for.
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That was the piste that took a group of five of us 13 hours. We crossed the Todra about 1030 and started on the piste about 1130. We managed to ride around the second place the piste was cut whilst it was still light, but the piste got much worse further on. We also had severe problems with mudguards becoming clogged with mud preventing the front wheels from turning.
We eventually reached the Dades piste after six hours of riding in the moonlight, but then had a 2.5 hour liaison back to our hotel in Tinerhir which we reached at 0245am. Needless to say there wasn't any supper left.
We had to leave one of the bikes on the piste six miles before the end and it took ten hours the next day to recover it.
I last did the piste two or three years ago riding solo with luggage and it only took 2.5 hours.
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