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Dedegol Tepesi

Taurus Mountains
2022-09-26
hike
2988m
P1659m
i157.41km

I leave the hotel well before dawn. Surprisingly good roads, and I’m moving relatively fast. But still, it takes almost 3 hours to get to the trailhead. A short stop at the lake, nice views, and a calm morning.

Babadag

Western Anatolia
2022-09-24
hike
1969m
P1763m
i27.91km

From the top of Uiluk Tepe, I descend at noon, leaving enough time for another peak today. I roll on small roads for almost three hours, although the straight line is only 35.5 kilometers.

Uyluk Tepe

Western Anatolia
2022-09-24
hike
3016m
P1664m
i48.76km

I leave the hotel before dawn. It takes almost 4 hours to reach the trailhead. From Gömbe the road is unpaved. However, to my surprise I find brown signposts to points of interest. However, after a few kilometres, the arrows and my direction will stand out.

Ancient city of Side

2022-09-23
sight

I get into the car and drive to the nearby city of Side. To go to the old town is possible only by taxi or special transport. A kilometer before the old town, there is a large parking lot where I leave my car. As soon as you leave the parking lot, you see the…

Kizlar Sivrisi

Western Anatolia
2022-09-21
hike
3070m
P1966m
i369.54km

I get up with the sun, drive for a few hours. The last few kilometers are a good gravel road. I drive to the refuge, but I see that a road of similar quality goes further. I drive another kilometer or so and stop at a crossroads. I can see the path marked on the map and decide not to drive in the future on and start climbing.

Geyik Daglari

Taurus Mountains
2022-09-19
hike
2887m
P1543m
i113.77km

I drive on good roads and soon it’s starting to get light, great scenery all around. I arrive at a settlement which is quite empty in the early morning. I drive up a poor quality road, but the last few hundred metres are even more difficult. I can hear the stone scraping the bottom. uhh.The…

Iberian Peninsula 2022

2022-09-12
trip

The main objective of this trip is to climb the remaining three ultrapeaks in mainland Spain. And this trip perfectly matched a Atlas Mountains trip. The plane from Casablanca lands on time, we rent a car, and we roll towards Pico Almanzor. We spent the night in the small village of Hoyos del Espino. After…

Cruz de Hierro

Castile Ranges
2022-09-11
hike
1662m
P361m
i33.32km

I already think that Le Serrota was the first and the last mountain of the day. I was wrong. As I drive towards Madrid, I notice another pretty hill with windmills. If there are windmills, there will be a road. And so it was that I drove up. I could go almost to the top,…

La Serrota

Castile Ranges
2022-09-11
hike
2292m
P742m
i27.77km

An unplanned bonus peak on this trip. I wanted to hike it a few years ago, but I was probably distracted by other peaks, and my gaze constantly kept returning to this red dot. This time I have the whole day, and I’m in no hurry. Slow breakfast in the hotel, then driving towards a…

Torrecerredo

Cordillera Cantabrica
2022-09-10
hike
2649m
P1936m
i346.52km

This peak is included in Core Europe’s 50 Most Prominent Peaks list, the World Peaks with 300 km of Isolation list, the Spain Autonomous Community High Points list (two), and the Iberian Top 100 by Prominence list. It has so many reasons to be climbed, and the most important reason is its beautiful scenery. Torrecerredo…

Pico de Aneto

Pyrenees
2022-09-08
hike
3404m
P2881m
i507.49km

Top of the Pyrenees and Spain’s third-highest mountain, and also the birthplace of what were once the largest glaciers in the Pyrenees. Today, the glacier looked like a big patch of old snow in the summer. I was concerned about how we would avoid crevasses when we were planning the peak, but after watching a…

Pico Almanzor

Castile Ranges
2022-09-07
hike
2591m
P1686m
i326.89km

After successfully climbing five ultrapeaks in Morocco, we arrive in Madrid, get in the car, and a couple of hours later, we stay in the village of Hoyos del Espino, which is reasonably close to the trail. Pico Almanzor is the first of three planned peaks in mainland Spain. Good, we have a plan; we…

Atlas Mountains 2022

2022-09-05
trip

The main objective of this trip is to climb five Moroccan ultrapeaks. This trip worked well in combination with a Iberian Peninsula trip. The easiest and most reasonable flights were from Madrid. We took one of them and arrived at Marrakech airport in the afternoon. After a few hours of driving that evening, we slept…

Morocco

2022-09-05
region

We did a lot of travelling between the mountains by car. We started our journey in Marrakesh, then drove towards the Atlas Mountains towards the Atlantic Ocean, then along the entire length of the High Atlas Mountains towards Algeria, and then north towards the Mediterranean Sea. Finally, we finished our journey in Casablanca. As a…

Jebel Tidirhine

Northwestern Atlas
2022-09-04
hike
2456m
P1901m
i130.82km

The last of five planned Moroccan ultrapeaks is located right next to the Mediterranean Sea. So it feels like a resort: warm, dry, with lots of pine and cedar trees. It is likely that this climate is also very suitable for hashish, with practically all the fields planted with lush vegetation. The fields are irrigated…

Adrar Bou Nasser

Northwestern Atlas
2022-09-03
hike
3340m
P1642m
i147.59km

Three planned Moroccan ultrapeaks have been climbed, leaving two to go. So, we’re doing a big Northeasterly loop along the Atlas Mountains, and Adrar Bou Nasser is the most suitable mountain for the next climb. We get up early, drive to the trailhead, and leave the car at the end of the unpaved road. The…

Irhil M’Goun

High Atlas
2022-09-02
hike
4071m
P1904m
i148.49km

We start in Said’s home valley, in the village of Arousse. Said, his brother, and a helper with two mules, John and myself, all walk up a rough road next to a river. The road is rising gradually and passing through a few farms. The valley turns into a canyon, and at some point we…

Aghouri

High Atlas
2022-09-01
hike
3565m
P624m
i4.40km

Our main objective today is the Irhil M’Goun ultra summit. But this is a long hike, and we will be staying overnight in the refuge de Tarkeddite. Before arriving at the refuge, Said and I will take a 2-hour detour to climb bonus p600 peak Aghouri.  In front of the village, there is a large…

Jebel Toubkal

High Atlas
2022-08-30
hike
4167m
P3755m
i2078.23km

The world’s 36th most prominent mountain is Morocco’s highest mountain, the highest peak in the Atlas Mountains, and the nearest higher mountain is more than 2,078 kilometres away. There’s definitely more than one reason to climb it. A guide is compulsory, but it is not very clear why it is needed. Everywhere there are wide,…

Tinmal Mosque

2022-08-29
sight

We’re on our way down from Jebel Igdet, our first trip ultrapeak, and it might not even be lunchtime. Jebel Toubkal is not too far away, so we have spare time. Said offers us a tour of one of Morocco’s older and more important mosques. It is not operating as a mosque at the moment,…