Skiing in Morocco is a surreal contrast of desert plains and snowy peaks. Instead of fondue, there is tagine, and instead of lifts there are mule trains and skinning (ski-trekking on ‘skins’ or splitboards). Although Toubkal’s tame resort of Oukaimeden gets all the press, the best backcountry skiing is on Jebel Azourki (3677m) in the Central High Atlas. It has long been a sacred mountain for the area’s tribes, who would challenge themselves to scale its summit and make offerings for rain, peace and prosperity. It catches plenty of precipitation from the Atlantic and the snow sits crisp and clean on its broad face. There are no services here, just acres of unmarked snow, yawning descents and hospitable cups of mint tea in small Berber gites.
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