Morocco: Hiking Mt. Toubkal-The Highest Mountain In North Africa 

Thanks! We had a great time on the hike up Toubkal and the weather was perfect. We highly recommend this hike and a trip around Morocco if you haven't been there...so many surprises and a wonderful country!

It was our pleasure. Morocco is such a wonderful place and full of surprises. We loved the time we spent there and hope to visit again someday.

Thanks for the positive feedback! Beautiful places like Morocco make it easy to create a nice video.

Thanks for the generous compliment! Luckily, we only do these videos for fun, mainly so family and friends can "join" us on our trips, so we don't have to stress out about views. If anyone else sees them (and hopefully learns a little if they plan on doing the same trip), that's just a bonus.

Thanks!! It was a challenge but so much fun and the Atlas Mountains are beautiful.

Thanks! We always love to hear that our videos are helping fellow adventurers. Toubkal is a fun experience and very unique...good luck!

The Atlas Mountains are such a unique place to hike. We loved walking through the villages and seeing the snowy mountains in the background.

Thanks, the Atlas Mountains are a beautiful place to visit!

Thanks, we're definitely trying to inspire people to get out there and explore this beautiful world.

Thanks! Toubkal was an incredible adventure...we picked the perfect time of year to go with there being just enough snow to make it interesting.

Yes, Morocco is a very beautiful country!

Congrats on the summit! It looks like you had more snow than we did but the snow made it so much easier instead of having to navigate the rocky scree.

@@lylesuch4421 there was some fresh fall in the days before i got there, didn't feel so easy at the time but looking after hearing about other people's experiences I was glad for it.

Thanks!

Jebel Toubkal is a beautiful mountain and fun climb. Enjoy, stay safe, and good luck!!

@@lylesuch4421 thanks a lot ❤️🙏

@@phineus8397 it's very snowy during winter all the Atlas Mountains are covered by snow, sometimes for some safety purposes the local authorities prevent people from climbing to the summit due to the snow level. Overall, the area is beautiful during winter, you can visit Imlil village or some other places, the view and the experience are worthed.

@@phineus8397 Imlil in January is very very and beautiful to spend tree day and have lunch there, good place for hiking. This area is full of tourists, so the locals are very friendly with all the visitors no matter where they come from.

@@phineus8397 you're absolutely right, that's probably might happen in Marrakech which is quite big, or in some other big touristic cities, but Imlil is just a small village, with few population, in villages like these you don't have to worry about being approached by scummers, or hustlers. I completely understand what I mean.

We just use Google Earth to animate the map. I think there are better apps for mapping treks but we still use it for now. Good luck on Toubkal, it's an incredible experience!

Thanks! We summited Toubkal in mid-March. It was almost the perfect time, weather was cold but not too cold and having some snow on the mountain made the final ascent a little easier than its normal scree surface. The only thing we would have done a tiny bit different was if we had traveled a few weeks later, the trees would have been blooming, which would have added some nice color to the landscape.

Thanks! We just watched your Toubkal video, brings back nice memories of our hike. Looks very different without snow...I bet you had an incredible time!

Thanks! Yes, we went through Aztat Treks. You're required to have a guide hiking Toubkal. We arranged a climb, along with a trek through the Atlas Mountains and a road trip through Morocco through Aztat Treks. They were great and made it really easy to enjoy the country without thinking too much about the logistics. It was an incredible trip, and we highly recommend their services...good luck!

@@lylesuch4421 Thank you so much for the information. I will definitely do my research.

Thanks! We hiked Toubkal in March. It was great weather, but if we had waited a few weeks, all the flowers would have been in bloom. If I were to do it again I would wait until April. Either way, it's an incredible experience!

Many thanks for the feedback - All the best!

We hiked to Toubkal in March. The weather was perfect, although if we had been there a few weeks later we would have seen all the fruit trees blossoming. It is an incredible place to go trekking!

Tough hike, but it felt like a great accomplishment!

I am from Morocco and I have never climbed this mountain before . Your video inspired me, and I'll go up to it in this spring , Thank you

That's great! Morocco is such a beautiful country and Toubkal is an incredible adventure. Spring was the perfect time, with snow at the top and green plants and blossoming fruit trees in the valleys. Have fun and good luck with your climb!!

Thank you . And I hope you will visit Morocco again!

Thanks! For several shots in this video we used photos, cut into layers and turned into 3d in After Effects. Especially at the summit we were really cold and didn't spend much time shooting video so these 3d pics took the place of video.

Thanks! We climbed Toubkal in Mid-March. It was great weather, a couple more weeks and the fruit trees would have been blossoming.

Nice! I'm sure you'll love it, Toubkal is a fun adventure and the area is beautiful. We loved hiking through the small villages near Imlil, and we even did an extra 3 day trek through the Atlas Mountains over to Ouirgane. The best part was the orange juice, even high up in the mountains there would be people selling fresh-squeezed orange juice! Funny, we live near the Sierra Navada in California. There are some similarities in our climates. You must have hiked Mulhacén...we hope to some day do that hike when we visit Spain. It looks like fun!

Thanks so much for the kind words! We definitely try to be as informative and entertaining as possible with our videos. Sometimes it works, sometimes not so much. Music selection is something we've been paying more attention to lately. We live at sea level, but are lucky to have 14,000 foot mountains close by so we can train at higher altitudes. Because of this, we aren't affected much by altitudes below 15,000 feet. Very true, though, if you aren't accustomed to the effects of altitude, Toubkal can be a very difficult hike. There is a small opportunity for acclimatizing at the refuge where you stay overnight. I would suggest if you are really concerned, stay an extra night and do a short climb during that extra day. Also, there are amazing treks in the surrounding area of the Atlas mountains that would be a nice pre-Toubkal test to see how you do before the final attempt. If you have time, the trek from Ouirgane to Imlil adds an extra two days, but is well worth it...good luck!

Thanks!

That's great! Hopefully you have great weather like we did and some snow near the summit makes the climb a little easier. Have fun!

Thanks! I don't know if there's a specific name to the route, it's just the route from Imlil to the summit of Toubkal.

We climbed Toubkal in March. December would be winter conditions...as long as everyone's ok with the cold and using the right gear properly that would be a really fun experience. Good luck!

First of all, we booked our trip through Aztat Treks (email atlastrekshop.com) and they did an incredible job and were very easy to work with. We had a rough itinerary including Toubkal Climb, Atlas Mountain trek, and road trip which we then corresponded through email with Aztat Treks, who then coordinated everything including the driver and hotels. For the most part everything was included minus flights, some of the meals, snacks, and of course tips. You can customize pretty much everything according to what you want to see and how long you want to stay in each location. We had a group of three so we reserved a private tour. This is a little more expensive, but ensures that you do exactly what you want. They have several group tours which I'm sure are great, but you have to join a specific itinerary which may not do everything you plan on doing. One of the main reasons we went with that company is that they were very good with communication and that helped to customize the tour and it was a very easy process. Hopefully this helps, and good luck!!

We hiked Toubkal in late March. The weather was great, it was fun to have a little bit of snow, but warm enough for t-shirts at lower elevation.

We organized a full Morocco tour with Mohamed at Aztat. They booked the trek to Toubkal and through the Atlas mountains, they also provided a driver who took us from Marrakesh all the way to Tangier with many overnight stops along the way. We booked as a group of two for the trekking, then we had a third person join us for the road trip. Aztat was an incredible company.

@@lylesuch4421 Many thanks. Did you have a separate guide, muleteer and cook (i.e. 3 individuals)? Or did you just have the guide who also moved the mule and cooked food? Just trying to understand how it works.

Good questions. For our two person group, we had one guide and one muleteer who carried extra gear. On the two day Toubkal ascent we ate at the refugio and at a small cafe on the way up the first day, so the mulateer didn't cook. The second part of our trek over to Ouirgane, the mulateer would set up a spot for lunch and he cooked the food (and the food was amazing). For dinners we ate at the refugios where we slept.

@@lylesuch4421 Many thanks for your replies. This is awesome. I apologise for continuing to ask questions but I think I may use the same company so I would like to have full information. Did you book months in advance of your trip or did you arrive in morocco? Also did you stay in the refugio or in tents? And did you need to bring your own sleeping bags (or would you recommend bringing our own sleeping bags? I see that you did in 2 days rather than over several days to allow your body to adjust to the altitude changes. Did you find it hard to cope with being at the higher altitude?

We summited March 16. The weather was perfect.

2 days to summit Toubkal. We also hiked an additional 2 days through the Atlas Mountains to Ouirgane. Beautiful...we also have a video of that.

Excellent summary of the climb!

We used atlastrekshop.com, they were incredible and very flexible. We did the 2-day Toubkal summmit, then trekked two days from Imlil to Ouirgane, then a tour through Morocco ending in Tangier. It was a custom trip, and they did an amazing job of making our plans work perfectly. We highly recommend using them as your agent. You can check out a detailed account of our trip starting at this link: lylesuch.com/morocco-pt-2mt-toubkal

thanks a lot

Nice, thanks for sharing!

@@lylesuch4421 Welcome with pleasure