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from Faraya to Baskinta through Mzaar - Alive?Posted by finkployd in
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At first it all looked like another beautiful and appealing day in sunny Lebanon......
Then clouds stared forming in the valley of Baskenta an ominous and foreboding message from God........  high res  high res But nothing would stop us we where set on going all the way to what is known here as The French Room.....  high res  high res  high res  high res  high res  high res The French room is a sort of construction on top of the highest peak of the Sanine mountain range once occupied by french soldiers....... Six courageous skiers and snow boarders bent on skiing down one of the most exciting slopes of mount Lebanon, named by a french ski instructor as La Grande Coulee..... There they were, Alex, Karim, Elias, Maissa, and Mark accompanied by and old man called Camille who should have known better than to keep on strutting to the top........  high res Finally we reached the Cross under a heavy fog.......  high res Things were looking bleaker by the minute..... Our only window of opportunity to go down as originally planned was fading away in the clouds...... It got colder and colder and our only hope was to track back the way we came but this time with Zero visibility.....  high res When we finally made it back after 8 hours of solid walking we were happy to be alive.....  high res  high res tags: lebanon, mountains, snow, skiing, mzaar, faraya, lost, alive, fog, baskinta, beirut, expedition -finkployd- Expeditions on BloggingBeirut.com Trackbacks
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Man, the memories these pictures bring back... Is that Sannin?
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