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Greenland Powder 8s
Thursday, June 24, 1999 — 8:13am (PST)
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Mountain Zone, Wally Berg on the 24th again—just had to call you back quickly with this short dispatch. The Greenland powder 8s are underway here. I'm looking across at a beautiful slope of fresh powder, and I'm watching our entire group carve beautiful turns down this powder. It's real ego snow as we say—quite easy to ski. Everyone's putting beautiful turns into it.
And they're doing this as I'm continuing to monitor what's going on back in Iceland with the pilots. They apparently have a similar impression from their weather map as we do from looking up at the sky here. It comes and goes. Now, at three o'clock in the afternoon, they want to stay on call to fly for two more hours. I'll check with them at five, and we'll decide whether to try to pull this off this evening, with the Twin Otter landing with the skis here and getting us out of here, or to abort until tomorrow.
But that's the status. Greenland is a wonderful place. You can stay here in the sun and enjoy good powder skiing, or, in my case, enjoy watching good powder skiing or any number of other wonderful things in a really pristine, wild, beautiful place. We're happy to be here, and if the plane makes it, that's fine. If not, we're going to have a great day tomorrow as well.
— Alpine Ascents Guide Wally Berg, MountainZone.com Correspondent
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