Jebel Tisouka — Local services in Caïdat de Bab Taza قيادة باب تازة

We took the trail from Chefchaouen through the gorge. It's definitely worth doing. 31st of December, nice shade in the valley while ascending and sunshine in the afternoon. Impressive forests above 1400 m with ages old cedar trees. Beautiful, unique landscape. Karst limestone with many of it's typical formations.

However, even though we go in the mountains regularly, we were quite surprised, how demanding it is. There is nothing technically too challenging on the trail, last 200 m easy scrambling the most. But the amount of ascent (ca. 1500 m) plus the constantly changing trail structure demand physical and mental capability. Don't underestimate! Its "only" above 2000 m, but more demanding than several 3000ers I've done. Took us from 10AM til 7 PM with 3 not too long breaks on the trail. Bring enough water - the creek very probably is dry, higher up is a spring - but filter needed! I am sure, in the hot season water is a real challenge here.

From my perspective, following classification of difficultiy seems reasonable: Physical: 8/10 (10 being 4000er fit) Technical: 6/10 on hiking scale (10 being medium scrambling)

Could be easier, if you start very early and...

Nice hike, very exigent. I found the path not clear and confusing, specially in the last km. I followed the wrong signs and ended up on another hill that is in front of the summit. I also got lost descending although that one maybe was my fault as I was not checking simultaneously the path on the maps I had on my phone. It took me to do everything a bit more than 8 hours, it's true that I got lost a few times but the breaks I took were really short , except the one at the summit, that was around 30 min. I started walking at 6.45 and I would recommend to start also early and bring a fleece ( October when I did this trek) as the ascent at that time it's all the time in the shade and it will be a bit cold. Views at the top were really nice even though I had clouds covering part...

Great mountain to climb from Chefchaouen, you can descend into Azilane in the valley on the other side via a junction 500m before the summet following the yellow signs, if you're lucky you can see the...