Opt for an early morning departure from Marrakech, taking a pleasant drive south through the Moulay Brahim Gorge and upper valleys, to arrive at the higher foothills of the western High Atlas mountains and our trailhead of Imi oughlad (1450m).

After breakfast, set off on your hike up along the Assif n'ait Oussaden Valley, passing through the walnuts groves.

Head up to Tizi n Taghrhourte (1995m ) and through to a rare almost flat stretch, to arrive at Assaka spring. Here, you will stop for our field picnic amidst silence after two and half hours of relatively easy walking.

Take a downhill hike along the edges of the forest until you reach the Berber village of D'knt (1870m) or Agouns n'Assoul. You will have your dinner and spend the night in a bivouac or gite.

Set off for this morning's hike up through groves of walnut trees, fields of corn and barley, to greet the many sheep and goat herders, women and children working.

Traverse the Tizi n Tagdalit, to descend amongst the juniper trees till you come to a small spring set amongst the trees. Here you'll stop for a picnic lunch.

Once refreshed, go down winding tracks of upper slopes, for some 3 hours, to come to a small river at the beginning of the Valley of Assif n'ait Oussaden. 

Later, enter the village of Tizi Oussem (1850m) and then up to the summer village of Tamsoult, for your camp or gite.

Trek to a small waterfall at Azib Tamsoult and return to cross the Tizi Mzik pass (2,500m).

Join the main Toubkal valley at Imlil. (1,900m)

Have lunch before the drive to Marrakech.