EDC 2016 Maroc Ride Report

[WIBO]

Later we bid farewells, crew up and leave,bound for Tissint.









Nice camel toes......







We ride along plains before we hit steeper rock trails akin to a lane being covered in hardcore you'd use in building.















































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[WIBO]

The rocky trail can be seen climbing up to the top of the mountain. This is a difficult trail due to the constant loose rock and the long gradual climb,the kind that if you stop on it's hard to get going again,due to the rock being spat out by the rear wheel.









Jon drops his Peugeot 57 TC and before he is helped up Roger a picture has to be taken....














Percy looses momentum and I saunter down to bring his moto up.

[PHILinFRANCE]

(thumbs) PROPER GRAND (thumbs) how many days did you go for Kieth ?
Phil

[WIBO]

Eve'nin Phil....

From about the 3rd until the 19th or thereabouts.


:)





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[WIBO]

At the end of the trail that you can see in the very first picture...just when you think it's coming to an end, it turns to the right and climbs more.






You can see a moto in the picture slowing to turn right.






I don't think there's enough rock......

















The last section climbs more before leveling out and where the trail starts to descend towards Tissint. We take a rest and then ride on.











Still...we could do with more rock ...

[luckiegar]

brilliant nearly wet myself , seeing rogers hair :woohoo:

[WIBO]

We drop down........

















...... to the last difficult section,a dried up narrow river bed with a rock base.



































It's an easy ride now to Tissint where I've promised the goats some Coca Cola.






We stop and wait for the excavator ahead to move over.......

[WIBO]

After a coke break we ride out of Tissint on an easy and scenic ride to Tata where we'll get fuel. Just outside Tissint there's a gorge so we stop for a couple of stupid pictures.





























Before Tata Jon runs out of fuel.....before he fills up a picture has to be taken....











After we all get fuel in Tata we eat in the town centre before heading to Igherm by a very scenic route.

[WIBO]

The road to Igherm.....


























Pity it wasn't raining......




















































We're almost there.......








We stop for tea before we ride outside of town to an area we've camped in before to make camp.








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[WIBO]

We get sorted, make food and bed down.



I tell the goats to come and take a picture of Ayers Rock so they can tell their friends and family when they get back that they saw it........they believe mewhilst forgetting they've taken a picture of Ayers Rock the previous night







We get up the next day bound for Taroudant by trail.




Pity it wasn't raining.....










Roger takes down his Lidl's Touratwat Coleman Big Agnes tent.



















We head to Igherm for tea and fuel whilstt we wait on the others.







Look at his hair......






We crew up and head out of Igherm a short distance and hang left on to the trail.



















The going changes as we climb trails cut into the side of mountains.



































































We ride on on graded piste until we hit blacktop and ride on until we turn off left at the start of the next trail. This trial runs through a couple of hill top villages with great views before dropping down towards Taroudant.










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