I’ve just got home from an amazing rock climbing trip to the Moroccan Anti-Atlas mountains. I was last here fully ten years ago, and again I was based out of Tafraout…
Our gang of climbers was loosely myself and Steve and Nick and Joe. However, Joe’s first four days were spent teaching climbing to a small gang of relatively newbie climbers. But that didn’t stop Steve and I making the most of the amazing rock on offer!
That said, our trip got off to a bad start! Due to a miscommunication between Steve and I about flight times we managed to miss our flight from Manchester to Agadir!!! We did manage to book a replacement flight at great expense, but our trip was now reduced from fourteen days to twelve…
The climbing was awesome, and the weather was even better!
On one of our days we were joined by two fun people we randomly met in Tafraout – Julian (from France) and Lydia (from Germany).
Lydia isn’t a climber, but she enjoyed a day taking photographs and walking near our climbing venue – Dragon Rock. It turned out she had a great eye for a great photo!
Julian had a big day out with Nick. I wonder if it was what he’d expected after simply seeing me in Tafraout, thinking I looked like a climber, and coming over and asking if there was any chance of joining in as he was climbing partnerless!
We had some very long days out. Not least because being based in Tafraout and climbing on the north side of the range required over an hour’s drive each way.
Well, it was great in Morocco and I can’t wait to go back! Especially as I’ve come home to awful wet Lakeland weather and a world in apparent chaos and closing all it’s doors due to the global pandemic of corona virus!!! Oh, how I wish I was in the sunshine climbing marvellous quartzite rock again…
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