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Last episode, the crew journeyed into the Saharan dunes for a romantic evening with camels and two days lathered in sunscreen. A three day break altogether from skating makes them eager to get back on the road, starting from Ourzazate, traveling east through Valee Du Dades, coincidentally for the Festival of the Roses in El Kelaa M’gouna. Passing off the festival and opting to skate the Gorge du Dades, one of the most radical designs in roadwork, the Long Treks team skates into the massive Gorge. Unfortunately, Adam is the last of the three to be struck with a powerful and tormenting stomach flu. Need not to go into detail, Aaron and Paul enjoy a day of skating switchback after switchback in the famous Moroccan Gorge.

We skate all the way down to Zagora losing our minds. We hop into a shuttle to go to the desert town of Mhamid were we set out into the Sahara desert with dinosaur camels. We soon find out camels are funny dinosaur monsters that like to groan and regurgitate food. Aaron gets lost in the desert and ends up entering a dream like world where fears of sunburn play heavily on his mind. Back into town we arrive with all of our gear filled with sand even Paul’s eyes.

Catching a magical tailwind with our Sporting Sails we make our way quickly to Ouarzazate. From there we start on a stretch to Zagora that would prove harder than we thought. Through painful chip seal pavement we slowly made our way through a valley of beautiful oasis and mosques. We make it to Zagora a little bit crazier and very close to the Sahara Desert.