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	<title>Alpine Break</title>
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	<description>Activity holidays in the French Alps</description>
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		<title>First ski tour of the season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pic de Chalanches is a great early season tour when the conditions are right, and today they were right. Later on in the season the skiing can be as good, but the approach is much longer and harder as the road from Villard up to lac de l’Orceyrette will be blocked with snow adding some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Verdon des Collines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We (Hubert, Seb and I) headed down to have a go at this competition at the end of the Verdon Gorge called Verdon des Collines. We deciede to opt for the 55km route with 1250m of climbing.
It was a very badly organised race and we ended up catching up with the people that were out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alpinebreak.com/2008/news/verdon-des-collines/</link>
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		<title>Eygliers Circuit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was out running recently and bumped into some local French mountain bikers, who invited me along with them for their next ride. I had been finding it difficult to hook up with locals here due to the lack of a mountain bike club and as luck would have it these guys were heading out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alpinebreak.com/2008/news/eygliers-circuit/</link>
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		<title>Top Gear Challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have just come up with a great possibility for one of the segments Top Gear do where they race a car by one route against someone skiing/climbing/riding/running by another route.
We often pop over to Italy for ice cream and coffee because it is much nicer than the stuff you get here in France. You [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alpinebreak.com/2008/news/top-gear-challenge/</link>
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		<title>Tete de Gaulent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The craggy summit of Tete de Gaulent (2867m) can easily be seen from the front of our house and I have been keen to make my way up it for some time now. I managed to tempt David Monteith, an Alpine Club member, who was staying with us to come along.
 
I wasn’t exactly sure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alpinebreak.com/2008/photo/tete-de-gaulent/</link>
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		<title>Col Vieux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This descent came well recommended with Nico Vuilloz himself saying it ‘knocks the stuffing’ out of Mega and Maxi Avalanche courses. With just over 200m of climbing needed for this outstanding 1200m descent it is a must.
 
The weather looked normal down in Guillestre, but as we headed into the Queyras we could see a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alpinebreak.com/2008/photo/col-vieux/</link>
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		<title>Accompagnateur part 4 - Mileau Estival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This course was only a week long and was pretty easy going compared to the one at the beginning of the summer. It was mainly to recap on what we had learnt over the summer and to kind of share the information around the rest of the group.
It was amazing to see how different everyone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alpinebreak.com/2008/news/accompagnateur-part-4-mileau-estival/</link>
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		<title>Lac du Distroit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lac du Distroit is up at 2519m altitude at the southern tip of the Ecrins National Park. This walk starts from the trailhead in the Rabioux valley above Chateauroux les Alpes. The path climbs up from the valley floor on the south facing slopes under the steep slopes of the Chabreyret ridgeline. There is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alpinebreak.com/2008/photo/lac-du-distroit/</link>
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		<title>Accompagnateur part 3 - Connaissance Fondamentales</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was the first real course specifically aimed at the mountain leadership award. It seems strange that we have to wait 9 months from the entrance exam back in September to do this course. Obviously they leave some time to do the Tronc Commun but even so there seems to have been a lot of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alpinebreak.com/2008/news/accompagnateur-part-2-connaissance-fondamentales/</link>
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		<title>La Rouya - couloir nord</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a great line with over 1500m of descent, with around a thousand of it being in a spectacular 45 degree couloir. We used the lifts at Pelvoux which for 5 euros will take you up the first 1000m leaving an easy skin up to the top.
 
The first twenty meters needed to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alpinebreak.com/2008/photo/la-rouya-couloir-nord/</link>
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