Greg Nieuwenhuys

Before easter I went skiing steep couloirs in Meribel with Falco ans Edward. Despite the warm temperatures we had excellent conditions with firn snow on the south slopes and powder (above 2500 m) in the north slopes!

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This weekend I went ski touring around Meribel with Taco, Alex and Maarten. Despite the bad weather forecast, it turned out to be great!

The north slopes were powder, and others firn snow! Perfect taking into account the +15 degrees at 1600 meters !

On saturday we went for the Mont Gébroulaz (3511 m) and Sunday we attacked the Mont du Borgne (3200 m).

Have a look at the Google Earth file from the Gébroulaz Randonée

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I am now the lucky owner of the smallest GPS in the world: the new Suunto X9i!

Have a look for more details...

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Last week snow fall was finally generous to the Western Alps. France got a good 130 cm of fresh snow at some places, after 4 very dry weeks.

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It is much likely that France has lost one of its last great mountaineers. In an attempt to summit the Himalayan giant Makalu Lafaille (39) has not been heard from for several days. He was attempting to climb, solo, in alpine style, in the winter (Makalu has never been climbed in the winter, the last 8000'er with this status)...

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I spent the weekend in Meribel, doing some sky technique training on the groomed pistes that were in pretty good shape. Last snow fall was more than two weeks ago, so off-piste wasn't too great.

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Hi, on this blog I will try to post some nice ski stories from the Alps.

My name is Greg, I am currently living in Paris, France and using week ends to ski as much as possible! See you again soon with some more news & pictures...

Greg

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