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| alpinegosse | Done  Date Climbed: Jan 9, 2006 | |
| Cold Hut, Avy Beacon, Beyonce in the Taxi. | |
| Posted Nov 24, 2008 12:07 pm | ||
| fatdad | Normal Route | |
| I was traveling by myself in Southern Spain in summer 1990 with a Spain/Morocco guidebook. On a lark, I took the ferry and night train to Marrakech, met some Brits and climbed the Standard route with one of them in two days from Marrakesh. It was very cold and we didn't have any appropriate mt. gear so wore all the clothing we had we leaving the Neltner hut in the morning. The whole trip, the spontaneity, the climb, the view from the summit looking out east over the Sahara was memorable. | |
| Posted Sep 12, 2008 5:59 pm | ||
| barryg | My first 4000+ peak Date Climbed: Apr 5, 2007 | |
| We climbed the normal south face route. Very busy in the refuge as it was Easter holidays. Beautiful conditions, we needed crampons from above the refuge. Fantastic views from the top. | |
| Posted Sep 10, 2008 4:28 pm | ||
| FrançoisJ | Route climbed : normal Date Climbed: Jul 25, 2007 | |
| Sabrina and I climbed up normal south route (Tizi Toubkal) and down normal north route (Tizi Imuzzer) with a french group. I also soloed Toubkal west from tizi Toubkal. Sabrina and I soloed to 3rd of the four summit of Imuzzer (not easy to tell wich one is the highest but with no doubt none of them is a 4000er (3965 m max). | |
| Posted Jun 24, 2008 9:28 am | ||
| Outdoorpartner | Three of four 4000 meters Date Climbed: Jun 11, 2008 | |
| Bluebird day; very crowded on the summit. This was the third of four 4000 meter peaks we climbed. Toubkal was the only mountain with a clear trail to the top. | |
| Posted Jun 20, 2008 9:54 pm | ||
| LS | Easy but nice Date Climbed: Apr 1, 2008 | |
| I'm too lazy to translate my Norwegian trip-report found here: http://distantpeak.com/cms/story/202/atlas-mountains | |
| Posted Jun 14, 2008 12:20 pm | ||
| MattHC | 3 men, one girl and a dog Date Climbed: Apr 16, 2008 | |
| So we had a tiny window of opportunity between work, a day! Could we do it? I reckoned we could, but it would need a really early start. The others reckoend there was no point in sleeping - so 11pm saw us drive out of Marrakech. We parked up opposite Aremd, and were off by 2am. By 4 am we were above Sidi Chamharouch and wondering what was wrong - we were exhausted. OK - so maybe missing a nights sleep was not such a good idea. A couple of hours kip, and we were off again. A nic cup of team with my friend Brahima at the CAF hut gave us plenty of sugary fuel to keep going. Now we were on snow and I was a bit worried how my dog would cope - silly really, she did fine, scampered way on ahead of us as to say hurry up slow coaches. Up at the peak (again), not great views this time, bit too hazy. Windy and cold too, so we didn't hang around and set off after 15 mins to head back to the car. Descent was fine until Sidi Chamharouch, and then my toes really started to hurt. Too long squashed into my boots. It was such a relief to get those things off and put my feet into more comfortable approach shoes. So were back in Marrakech for 11pm, a great way to spend 24hrs. My feet were numb for days though ... | |
| Posted May 11, 2008 12:05 pm | ||
| Peak_Bagger | 1st peak!! Date Climbed: Jun 25, 2001 | |
| My 1st peak...it was cool. Hard to imagine it would lead me to all the things I've done now. | |
| Posted Apr 28, 2008 2:54 am | ||
| MegasAlexandros | Awesome experience! | |
| This was an unforgetable experience! I climbed the classic route. Leaving the hut at 2 AM it took around 4 hours of climbing in moonlight to the summit. Strong winds were blowing occasionally but did not cause any serious problem. I made it to the summit 20 seconds before the sun appeared on the horizon! | |
| Posted Mar 28, 2008 7:07 pm | ||
| Jon Cruces | Route Climbed: Normal route. Ikhibi Sud Date Climbed: Mar 17, 2008 | |
| We left the hut at 06:00am, and it took us 4h15min to get to the top. The day was excellent. I was very happy standing in the summit. I might be one of the youngest person to climb toubkal. PHOTOS + VIDEO: http://todovertical.com/jon_unai/blog.php?id=15 | |
| Posted Mar 26, 2008 5:19 am | ||
| Proterra | Nice climb Date Climbed: Nov 17, 2007 | |
| Encountered a wee bit of iced-up rock, definately not a "walk-up" all the way, needed hands pretty much all the way up from the corrie to the saddle. Reckon it`s a YDS 2-3. Did the West Toubkal summit afterwards. Very enjoyable day. Pictures coming up when i`m back in Nijmegen | |
| Posted Nov 21, 2007 6:44 am | ||
| codelancer | Route Climbed: Standard Route, solo Date Climbed: Jun 11, 2007 | |
| start from Casablanca at 8:00 10th June, Marrakesh at 12:00, Imlil at 16:00, Refuge Neltner 21:00 Start climbing at 10:00, 11th June. Summit at 13:00pm. Without guide. | |
| Posted Sep 30, 2007 9:28 am | ||
| Quensell | Better than I thought | |
| I climbed Toubkal with a mate as a special treat for ourselves (winter walking has yet to appeal to me in a big way). Stayed at the Toubkal refuge for three nights and climbed around the Atlas as a bonus for two days. The views from the top on a clear day are amazing - good fun sliding back down on my backside as well although it's obviously not recommended!!!! | ||
| Posted Sep 28, 2007 9:01 am | ||
| roadmountain | Route Climbed: normal route Date Climbed: Mar 6, 2007 | |
| My climbing partner first 4000 meter peak. Nice summit, very different than the Alps. | |
| Posted Jun 12, 2007 4:59 pm | ||
| markradford | Toubkel by Voie Normale Date Climbed: Mar 12, 2007 | |
| Fair bit of snow, left hut at 6 am and on the summit by 9. Fair slog up to the first col and better view when up on the north ridge looking across into sahara. Cold above 3700m, back down to hut by 11. | |
| Posted Mar 25, 2007 3:37 pm | ||
| Joker Vk | My firts 4000m Date Climbed: Jan 17, 2007 | |
| It´s incredible, up the summit of this mountain with 5 frineds. The views are incredible. Go and see. | |
| Posted Jan 24, 2007 4:08 pm | ||
| John Climber | Perfect trekking to Toubkal Date Climbed: Jan 17, 2007 | |
| A party of 5 summited Jbel Toubkal from our BC, situated some hundred metres away of the Toubkal hut, following the normal route. There was a blue sky, almost no wind, and not too much snow. Therefore, when walking out of the stepped path we were going, sometimes, till our knees through the powder snow of the slopes of Toubkal. Temperature was just over freezing point at the top and, aproximately, 5 degrees celsius next to the hut. Some members of the party were not even using crampons to walk up the mountain. On the 5th Nov. 2008 climbed again from the Mouflon Hut via the normal route. Plenty of snow due to many days of bad weather in the Atlas region, with a lot os snow-fall. At the upper slopes there was a little bit less of snow. There was almost no icy conditions and I went uo and down without the use of crampons. Together with me Sanaa climbed the mountain (her first 4000er) and I met the member of SP, Matt. Alberto was doing it also to the top and we went together all the way down. Good weather conditions, with fresh temperatures but blue sky. On tuesday, april 20th, climbed by third time!! with Rocío, Miguel Ángel, Ana y Rubén in 4 hrs and 1/2. Snow from the hut till the slopes of the Col du Toubkal. The NW slopes were free of snow as well as the top, Windy. Good temperature at the top. | |
| Posted Jan 22, 2007 4:22 pm | ||
| thenewpassion | NormalRoute Date Climbed: Sep 1, 1990 | |
| Me, two buddies and five English girls formed a team to summit this puppy. One could say we were slightly unprepared for this mountain. Hell, Pete didn't even bring a sleeping bag. The most memorable thing about this mountain, was not the climb itself, but the amazing egg omelets that could be had in Imlil | |
| Posted Dec 10, 2006 7:34 am | ||
| Trabalon | Notmal Route in december 2000 | |
| My first 4000. We climbed it in december but there aren't snow!! Beautiful but more easy compared with 4000 in Alps. The best thing of this expedition: to know this incredible country!! | |
| Posted Feb 28, 2006 5:53 pm | ||
| TodoVertical | Route Climbed: 'Normal' Route Guiding Date Climbed: 06/12/2005 | |
| A party of 7 people, including a 12 year old boy, got to the summit on a beautiful day !! | |
| Posted Dec 10, 2005 7:32 pm | ||
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