Logbook / one post a month

Field notes
& dispatches

Two kinds of writing. Field notes answer the questions people send me before they book — conditions, kit, fitness, altitude. Dispatches are what actually happened up there. Both are mine, first person, no ghostwriter.

Field notes

Practical

AUG 2026PUBLISHED7 MIN
Toubkal month by month
Which months are genuinely good, which need crampons, and the two weekends I would book if I were you.
SEP 2026DRAFTING5 MIN
Do I need crampons?
The honest answer by month, what we hand you at the refuge, and how long it takes to learn to walk in them.
OCT 2026DRAFTING6 MIN
Refuge night, honestly
Bunks, blankets, no shower, forty strangers and the best bad sleep of your life. What to expect at 3,207 m.

Dispatches

From the trail

JUL 2026PUBLISHED4 MIN
The morning we turned around at 3,900 m
Six people, 267 metres from the top, and the four minutes that made the decision for me.
AUG 2026DRAFTING6 MIN
I failed on my first attempt — a December ascent
Winter on the upper route, what actually stopped me, and the two months of preparation that made the second try work.
SEP 2026DRAFTING5 MIN
Why I stopped selling the two-day version
It worked on paper and it broke people. What changed when I added the third morning.
OCT 2026DRAFTING4 MIN
The tagine that ends every trek
Who cooks it, why we eat in Imlil rather than driving straight back, and what gets said at that table.

Field notes& dispatches

Field notes

Dispatches

Field notes
& dispatches