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	<title>Alpine Guide Verbier &#187; Alpine Climbing</title>
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	<description>A mountain guide's perspective on current ski and climbing conditions in and around Verbier, Switzerland.</description>
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		<title>Reflection</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After 30 days of non-stop skiing, I&#8217;m given the chance to reflect on all the wondrous adventures we&#8217;ve had together. Verbier has been blessed with the most memorable skiing in many,many years. Every run was in such great shape, alpine and treeline. I very nearly never left the valley. I wandered the ridges and combes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zinal Freeride</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was the first clear day after 4 days of snowfall. What a feeling it was to be outside. The atmosphere was vibrant with freshness, giving energy to each turn in the first fresh powder of the season. Today, we went to Zinal, riding little half pipes and contouring the avalanche danger. It&#8217;s a moderate level [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climbing the Matterhorn via the Lion&#8217;s Ridge</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fiona and I climbed the Matterhorn this early October, just hours before the first winter storm moved in. All lifts in Cervinia were closed, which meant an 1&#8217;800 meter climb, just to the Carrel Hut! It was the next day that had me thinking: 8 hours round trip to the summit from the hut, then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Piz Badile North Face Cassin Route</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weather has been fabulous! It has been hot, hot, hot. With a week free to go climbing with my friend and fellow guide Mike Powers, we chose the Cassin route on the Piz Badile. Temperatures in the valley were 30+ degrees, so this looked to be a perfect window to climb a north face. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frendo Spur</title>
		<link>http://www.swissguides.com/2011/07/frendo-spur/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 09:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking up from Chamonix to the Aiguille du Midi, Vadim asks, &#8220;Is there a route up there we can do together Hans?&#8221; Of course I immediately thought about the Frendo Spur, number 62 in the &#8220;100 best of&#8221; by Gaston Rébuffat. Anyone out there collecting points from this classic guide to the Mont Blanc Group? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Grand Jorasses</title>
		<link>http://www.swissguides.com/2011/07/the-grand-jorasses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Descending into in the Larch forests filling the valley floor, I&#8217;m aware of the dwindling roar of the cascading waters from the Freney and Brouillard glaciers and conscious of the birds, the trickling water and soft sounds of my feet on the pine needles of the forest bed. Spending a few days high in these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Verbier to Engelberg Ski Safari</title>
		<link>http://www.swissguides.com/2011/03/verbier-to-engelberg-ski-safari/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 08:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[45 cm of fresh snow had fallen as we left to Engelberg to start another fantastic ski safari Monday, February 28. The forecast called for the clouds to clear more slowly in the north. So looking at the blue bird day brightening through the wind screen, we deiced to make a quick stop on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy New Year Couloirs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 10:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year! What a wonderful start to the 2010-2011 winter season. The egg shell coating we received earlier, has provided us with a solid base, allowing us to ski all the classic lines normaly reserved for late January. The avalanche risk has recieded to level 2. We skied 2 steep couloirs on this December [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An eggshell coating on these Alps</title>
		<link>http://www.swissguides.com/2010/12/an-eggshell-coating-of-these-alps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 11:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It rained to 2400 meters last week, after a solid dump of over 50cm. This has created a superb base everywhere, even to higher elevations and shady aspects where mild temperatures melted the surface snow. Tele Verbier has opened more terrain for those into lift access: the Jumbo up to Col des Gentiannes and Savoleyres [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tele Verbier opening with a big south wester</title>
		<link>http://www.swissguides.com/2010/11/tele-verbier-opening-with-a-big-south-wester/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swissguides.com/2010/11/tele-verbier-opening-with-a-big-south-wester/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 07:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hans</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Verbier Weather Forecast]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tele Verbier plans to open today. That is if the forecasted storm strength winds allow the lifts to run. Up to 50cm of snow is forecasted above 2300 meters today, and blue skies and 0 degrees at 3000 meters for the weekend. Hey, Spring Skiing! Share this on Facebook Tweet This! Subscribe to the comments [...]]]></description>
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