Horsemen of the Apocalypse

After our little jaunt round the local area yesterday, the four of us decided to head for Imilchil in the middle of the High Atlas via the Dades Gorge. I was searching for a name for our little group and someone suggested the the 'four horsemen of the apocalypse' might be an apt title. There was some debate as to who would get the 'Pestilence' label as the local diet was affecting most of us by now. I didn't realise there would be debate over the 'Flood' name too.


This rock formation on the way up the Dades gorge is called locally the 'hill of bodies'. Not hard to see why. Richard on the other had thought it looked like something he had seen earlier that day in the toilet bowl. Either way, a pretty spectacular sight.



On we went up the gorge and it got to its tighest spot with the river running just beside the road with some sandbags to keep it back. After a while, the road turned to Piste.








At the start, a local guy told us that there was a river with probably 18 inches of water running which we thought manageable. When we got there, Nigel with the most top heavy bike had first go at it and sailed through. Then Wolfgang went and almost made it before taking a bath. There were some big rocks in the bottom and he clipped one and dropped it. We jumped into the river and hauled him out and got his bike fire up.



Distance 390km

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