Advice on Atlas winter driving?
First time into the mountains during the winter: a southward loop south through Marakesh, Ouarzazate to MHamid in early January. Thinking to go home through Dades and Agoudal. Driving a Disco.
Rabat, land of spotlessly clean Range Rovers and Prados with shiny tires, is full of horror stories about the winter weather "down there." To hear the talk, you'd think you'd be lucky to see the mountains peeking out of the snow drifts. And then there's the flooding and the mud slides and the giant winged snakes and so on.
So could someone with actual experience inject a note of reality for me?
Specifically:
1. Just on likely road conditions, R317 north through the mountains to Tizi N'Isly or eastward to Midelt and up the N13? I don't like motorways, but I prefer them to being swept off the road by an avalanche, buried alive, or eaten by mountain trolls.
2. Would you expect MH4 to be passable in early January? Basically the same context as question 1: I like piste and I don't mind minor damage to the Landy. I want to avoid the relatives having to identify thawed out remains come spring.
Thank you for your thoughts.
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