Ascent to Jabal Tubkal - 4167 m above sea level

The village under the mountains, where the entrance to the mountains and ascent begins – Imlil 1740 m above sea level

photo taken from afar … children do not want to be photographed and if for a bribe, but financial .. I gave them LIPO with our Czech Mole in the picture :-)

path next to the sign .. such are basically all the way to our „Base Camp“

..I did not measure the way, but I found out that our trek, which awaits us on the first day, is about 12 km and an elevation gain of 1300 m, along the way we meet mules with a load, which I feel sorry for …

..the goats make us on the way: D and also the murmur of the stream that flows through the valley ..

The village of Sidi Shamharus – some of them took a bath in a cold stream, there was a snack in the form of orange juice with squeezed fresh oranges, snack stations with juice is the way to the cottage about 5 ..

..I would say it's a donkey ..: D ..but they are mules … we met a lot of them on the way … here is a view back to our already lost route

… more fully loaded …

..how people are tiny .. :-)

..weather wishes us throughout our stay – May 2019

..refreshment station … in addition to juices you can also have bottled water or Coca-Cola and others ..

… the cottage, which is today's goal, is already in sight :-)

..there are two mountain huts … my assumptions that they are not far from each other have not been confirmed, the huts are just above each other … we are staying in the Toubkal hut and just below it is the second hut Les Mouflons .. they are proper buildings, compared to what we saw behind the dwellings in the villages … the cottage is at an altitude of 3207m.nm. we will spend two nights here …

… view from the cottage on our exit path …

..there behind the cottage is a small waterfall and we have to overcome it first, the weather is beautiful, but quite strong wind makes the whole ascent unpleasant

.. the way to the top is over stones, but a large part is rubble, which is quite unpleasant and quite slippery … in some places there are still snow fields. ..

.. it is May and there is relatively little snow here, but despite that, the road leads here and there through snow fields .. we overcame without cats, only with hiking poles …

..climbing over rubble and stones brought us to the horizon, here we turned left and there is still a long way to the top in front of us …

..we are here :-) – unfortunately I have no idea how long we went: D

… it was unbelievable that we were alone at the top: D

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… it blows quite a lot … we take the top photo and disappear down …

Jebel Toubkal

to overcome the unpleasant rubble and a few snow fields again, the snow is already allowed in the afternoon and we are doing well :-)

… we spread out the ascent for a few days..we spend the next night in the cottage and in the morning we go back to the valley ..

… we leave in the morning

.. we are down .. and the next days we move to Marrakech :-)