Freshest Mortgages
Want to vacation like a billionaire? Welcome to the world of fractional ownership, where scores of property-owning options at the nation's top resorts are on the table for literally a fraction of the...
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Your Piece of the Pie (cont.)
Storied Places Mammoth Mammoth Mountain, California Be among the first to buy into the 2,800-square-foot contemporary town homes that will pepper the slopes at Mammoth Mountain resort by 2007 and...
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Your Piece of the Pie (cont.)
The Residences at the Chateaux Deer Valley, Utah When resort developers want to woo clients with luxury and service, they turn to Deer Valley for ideas. The Residences at the Chateaux in Deer Valley's...
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La Grave, France Imagine signing up for a ski race with no gates, minimal groomed piste, and no fixed route. Now imagine that said race also plunges 5,900 feet through bumps, crud, and icy patches on...
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Mammoth, California
Snowfall: 400 inches Area: 3,500 acres Vertical Drop: 3,100 feet Web: mammothmountain.com Thanks to its altitude advantagethe summit is more than 2,000 feet higher than Squaw Valley'sMammoth offers...
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Green and Gold
Try to find a better location than this for a ski lodge in the Sierra Nevada. Tamarack Lodge and Resort sits along the Twin Lakes, in a secluded 9,000-foot alpine valley, but only three miles from...
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Best Towns 2010: Mammoth Lakes, CA
With a world-class ski resort (Mammoth Mountain Ski Area) and the second-largest contiguous wilderness area in the lower 48 (John Muir and others) off the back porch, Mammoth Lakes (pop. 7,392) was a...
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Ski Spring Break: Breckenridge
Breckenridge is less hip, and more hippie—in a good way. The college and post-grad crowds that come to this classic, old, mining town in the mountains leave their pretentions behind to snowboard, ski,...
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Ski Spring Break: Jackson Hole
Ski bums and snowboarders with fat trust funds gravitate to Aspen, Colorado, after college graduation. The ones who need to work for a living gravitate to Jackson—and they sure love to let off steam in...
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Ski Spring Break: Mammoth
What’s great about Mammoth in the Sierra Nevada is that it’s just close enough to Southern California to lure the fit, health-crazy-but-party-loving people who live there, but far enough away that...
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Where Should I Ski for Spring Break?
Where to go for a college skiing spring break depends on what kind of experience you want. Do you want to party? I mean, it is spring break. If you're looking for the best combination of skiing and...
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The Top 10 Towns for High-Altitude Running
Want to breathe with unconstrained lungs, cruise over hills as if they were pesky speed bumps, and shave down your PR? Then you'll need to spend some time huffing and puffing in thin mountain air....
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Where Can I Take a CrossFit Vacation?
Most CrossFit affiliates across the country welcome out-of-towners who want to take part in the workout of the day—or WOD—making any vacation into a possible CrossFit vacation. But if you’re looking...
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The LEIF eSnowboard
If you’re sick of that tedious drive to the mountains and persevering through long lift lines, then check out the LEIF eSnowboard. Born in New York City, this thing looks like an electric skateboard,...
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How To Bake Like a Pro Snowboarder
Snowboarder Kimmy Fasani and skier Chris Benchetler met at a Mammoth Lakes ice cream parlor as teens—Benchetler working behind the counter and Fasani stopping in regularly for scoops. The parlor closed...
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The Weekenders
Most families plan one big blowout vacation each summerwhich still leaves a lot of summer left to enjoy. Our advice: Think weekends. Our seven getaways are active enough to keep older kids...
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Endless Winter
JANUARY Alta Ski Area/Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort, Utah WITH ABOUT 500 INCHES of smoke-light Utah powder falling annually in Little Cottonwood Canyon, neighbors Alta and Snowbird are famous for a...
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We Sing the Slopes Fantastic
Aspen, Colorado Taos, New Mexico Jackson Hole, Wyoming Park City, Utah Whistler Blackcomb, British Columbia Mammoth, California Steamboat, Colorado Big Sky, Montana Alta & Snowbird, Utah Stowe,...
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The Hot List
» When the boys wouldn't let her play, KRISTI LESKINEN decided to start her own game: women's park-and-pipe skiing » Skip the high-rise hotels for five of our favorite CLASSIC LODGES » The best-decked...
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Your Piece of the Pie
First tracks in Whistler, a gourmet lunch slopeside in slippers, ski valets to warm your boots, and your own resort home to anchor it all... The problem with vacationing like a millionaire...
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