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Some pics near Amtoudi on what's locally called 'La Piste de la Legion', built by the French in the 1930s.
A stream crossing is marked with two cairns.
On top of the cairns is the grenade emblem of the CMA/4e REI which, according to Martin Windrow's 'History of the French Foreign Legion', is the
Compagne Montée Automobile, a motorised truck/armoured car battalion.
The second marker post reveals a date of what looks like June 1938.
These guys were the real adventurers, pioneer road builders with rifles always at the ready. What we do nowadays might be seem a little scary
at times, but at least there's nobody shooting at us.
