All three of us, Craig, Jenni and I wanted to do a ride on what's known as "piste", the rough unmade tasks that cross cross southern Morocco. After or days riding together Eduardo have us a GPS track for a route from where we were at Mergouza try edge of the Sahara to another small town named M'hemid - 260k not to much sand he said. Sounded perfect so we decided to do it, splitting it over two days and camping out in the middle. Turned out Eduardo's view of "not much sand " and ours were a bit different; there was plenty and on big will loaded bikes we worked hard in it. We only ended up doing half the track covering only 170k in 4 days (although admittedly the two end ones were short days). On toughest and slowest day we managed 38k in a fun days riding. But what fun and the camping out was superb - totally isolated and clear full moon skies.
It really was tougher than it looks in the pictures -b in the really sandy bits where weand bikes were struggling the camera tended to stay packed away. This last photo, taken on th 38k day, summed things up nicely (you may need to zoom to read the shirt)
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