In a Moroccan Tizzy - A hike in the atlas mountains is both challenging and rewarding.

World and I | March 1, 2001| | Copyright

I secretly described my first day of hiking in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco as the "death march." Unacclimatized for a starting altitude of 8,500 feet at Oukaimeden, Morocco's only ski resort, but with the ski lift nonfunctioning, we climbed another 1,100 feet to the pass called Tizi n'Edal, near the highest peak in the Atlas: the Toubkal Mountain region. There followed a descent of nearly 3,000 feet on the worst scree my weary hiking feet have ever encountered. But no matter, I have good, strong knees, about the only competent part of my ancient anatomy, and there at ...

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