Typed while driving into the High Atlas mountains, so not all typos are due to my usual clumsy typing. High Atlas, wow, and we haven’t got close to the snow yet. These mountains aare quite steep, mostly barren — some trees but generally just shrubbery. The road is cut into the side of the cliff, with only a foot high cement barrier and some fairly regularly spaced red and yellow striped star pickets between us and the edge. We just passed a point 2600 metres above sea level, the Tischa pass, and now heading down a bit. There are small patches of ice in tyhe ravines. Woke up this morning…