2 nd Edition Or i e n t e e r i n g t r e k f e m a l e & s o l i da ry Moroccan desert
« Some moments in a woman’s life are mountains to climb. But nothing can stop an adventuress born on the road of challenges. Whether it is an evidence already proven or a challenge to be discovered, the Rose Trip trek is the ideal playground for an initiatory experience.» The Rose Trip Team
For twenty years, I have had the opportunity to share my passion for the great outdoors with extraordinary women from all backgrounds. With the Rose Trip, I want to open desert’s doors and orienteering to walkers of all levels, in search of territories to explore and challenges to overcome. Passionate about hiking since my earliest childhood, I am convinced that southern Morocco is an ideal playground and that our know-how makes this project an incredible adventure for women. Rose Trip is therefore not only a nomadic hike but an event in solidarity with women and partner associations: Enfants du désert and Le Cancer du sein, Parlons-en! Géraldine REY FOUNDER OF THE ROSE TRIP
The concept AN ADVENTURE 100% FEMININE A SOLIDARITY TREK Desertours opens the doors of the Moroccan Each Désertours event is marked by solidarity. desert to all women thirsting for adventure. The all-female orienteering Rose Trip trek is in All-female, the Rose Trip hike is done in teams line with this spirit by offering a solidarity trek in of three in the heart of the Merzouga region. collaboration with the associations Enfants du Six days of adventures including three days of Désert and Cancer du sein, Parlons-en! Each stages and a solidarity-based challenge entirely participant can also decide to commit herself to dedicated to letting go and a total change of the solidarity actions carried out during the edition. scenery. AN ORIENTEERING TREK IN THE DESERT The all-female trios will have to cover loops using only the authorized navigation devices: a compass they will have to master, a GPS distance counter they will have to use and a roadbook they will have to decipher! On the agenda, several orientation stages where the notion of speed is excluded. Teams will have to understand and interpret their environment to better appropriate it. In this adventure, the winning team will be the one that has completed the fewest kilometers while respecting the checkpoints.
An event accessible to all Rose Trip is a hiking experience reserved for women • The OPEN category designed for all women who in search of adventures and self-transcendence. wish to challenge themselves while participating in Neophytes, sportswomen and trekking experts an event that is accessible. are welcome on the starting line. The only thing you • The OPEN + category is open to all the women need is a strong motivation to reach the fjnish line, who have a physical activity on a regular basis and regardless of your physical condition. The Rose Trip who hike occasionally. welcomes women from all over the world. • The EXPERT category is open to all women who are passionate about trekking, already initiated to Each team will be able to compete in the the discipline and enduring. category that corresponds to its profjle. Three sports categories are available: The Rose Trip is also open to all companies wishing to challenge their employees. These companies will be able to register them in the OPEN or OPEN + category and try to win the Trophy.
The organization The Rose Trip is the result of a concerted refmection: Désertours, organizer of this desert trek, the Désertours team wanted to put its passion at has worked hard to offer the best in terms of the disposal of the trekking expertise. Désertours sporting events: the fjeld reconnaissance, the has more than thirty years of fjeld expertise in desert realization of the route and the recognition of the best areas and is based in the «Pays Basque» in France, itinerary have been entrusted to a mixed team that has a privileged hiking area nestled between the ocean already walked legendary trekking routes in South and the Pyrenees. Attracted by nature and in love America, New Zealand or even Nepal. To follow their with challenges, the Désertours family, led by Jean- path amongst amazing landscapes and Moroccan Jacques and Géraldine Rey, created the Rose Trip dunes promises to be unforgettable and magical. concept to open the doors of the desert to women who love trekking and wide-open spaces.
Sharing his passion for adventure is the driving force behind its Athletic Director Julien Letullier. Each year, the team in charge of fjeld reconnaissance has mobilized to travel the desert in search of new routes. Research, invent, identify, trace and test... their mission is vast but guarantees a unique desert expertise. «The desert is changing and tirelessly we must re-examine its contours, its plateaus and dunes, to imagine and design the most beautiful playground.» Julien Letullier
The expertise SECURITY LOGISTICS AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE During all events, a wide range of measures is Participants will benefjt from the presence of a large deployed to ensure ideal conditions for team of pedestrian and motorized support staff with participants. For the Rose Trip , large-scale human broom trucks and a medical team composed of and technological resources are being doctors, nurses, podiatrists, etiopaths and Red Cross deployed. At any time, trekkers will be able members at their disposal. to report an incident, thanks to the advanced geolocation system they will be equipped with. Desertours’ security expertise also involves strict compliance with the legislation that governs its activities. From a regulatory point of view, Désertours is in full compliance with the law in terms of fjnancial protection for its participants, but also in terms of security. The company holds a State Licence.
An eco-friendly trek Walking through the desert and reducing its Every hiker shares this same desire: to impact on the environment is a real desire preserve his playground that is nature and for Désertours. The Rose Trip is part of an eco- return his environment as he found it or friendly approach where each team even cleaner. contributes to the respect of the environment by walking, keeping its waste to the supply In general, everything is done during the Rose points and collecting those found in its path. A Trip to make participants aware of simple, recycling operation for the plastic bottles eco-friendly actions: sorting garbage, consumed during the event is being carried out collecting waste, intervention of the NGO in partnership with a local sorting organization Surfrider Foundation, distribution of eco gourds... and Surfrider Foundation TM.
A solidarity trek Since its creation, Désertours has associated its events with new solidarity projects led by the association Enfants du Désert. The Rose Trip join the movement and each participant can make a contribution by supporting the different actions.
the association Enfants du desert For more than thirteen years, Désertours has After several months of refmection and fjeld been collaborating with the association Enfants studies, it is on a project of solidarity breeding du Désert, founded by Laetitia Chevallier. Its of goats that the association has committed motto, «Learning to read, write and count: a right itself. Supported by the Moroccan Ministry of for all», summarizes its action to promote school Agriculture, the action aims to empower women enrollment and improve the living conditions in the medium term through the sale of goat’s of children who are geographically isolated. In milk and later goat’s cheese. Thanks to the 2018, the association decided to set up a project participants of 2018, 76 goats and their food for women to help mothers in the desert who for one year were fjnanced for 35 women from need it. the village of Haroun in southeastern Morocco.
THE ASSOCIATION CANCER DU SEIN, PARLONS-EN ! Today, one in eight women is affected by breast cancer. Since 2012, Désertours has been a partner of the association Le Cancer du sein, Parlons-en! through actions carried out during its all-female adventures. It also participates in the “Octobre Rose” event, which raises women’s awareness about the prevention of the disease. The Rose Trip organization wishes to support women who fjght against this illness and work to promote information and early detection. As part of the solidarity actions, the organizers of the Rose Trip offer an athletic challenge in support of Le Cancer du sein, Parlons-en! association. During the fjrst edition, the participants had to climb the highest dune of Merzouga. Let’s all move forward for a real collective solidarity challenge! At the end of the trek, Désertours donated 5,000 euros to the association.
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