Ultra Trail Atlas Toubkal, 2 Oct 2014

Ultra Trail Atlas Toubkal, 2 Oct 2014

In the past 5 years I tryed to do the UTAT, at least 2 times, but for some reason (injury, family, etc) I was never able to do it.

2014 was finally the year.

 

I've been into the Atlas mountain 2 times before, one time do to some trekking and the 2nd time to do some rock climbing. These mountains are simply beautiful. What I love the most is the coulour of the sand/dirt: it's red... and the smell is also amazing.

And the people that live there, the Berberes, are such a nice, welcome and friendly people.

 

Talking a bit about the race:

I knew that this trail would be very very hard by several reasons:

- the altitude, we had to go up to 3600m

- the fact that the paths are very very technical and very rocky

- also the fact that we have to carry some more extra weight due to the water and food

- and this year, we were expected to have a lot of wind.

 

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The website of the race: www.atlas-trail.com

 

Film UTAT 2014 from UTAT on Vimeo.