They also found that lots with lake views sold for 94% more than viewless lots, and those with both lake and mountain views sold for 133% more.
The resort includes a series of buildings set around a lake below Cheyenne Mountain.
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Moriah, about 45 miles from Saranac Lake through twisting mountain roads, houses a six-month shock program designed to build character and self-esteem.
It is building reservoirs on high-mountain lake areas to ensure water supplies for the locals and this activity is likely to continue until well into 2013.
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On Eternal Space, loved ones can choose from different headstones and bucolic landscape backgrounds -- the mountain lake is a popular option -- to create a customized online grave site.
For example, even though automobiles represent a newer mode of transport than horses, a horse would certainly prove to be a more effective means for reaching a high mountain lake without roadways.
Unless you already happen to live beside a stunning mountain lake in Guatemala or inside a fairy-tale walled garden in Varanasi, you are far, far away, but your individual comforts and desires are still in familiar focus.
The mountain and lake landscape is certainly peaceful, like stepping back hundreds of years in time, and is pristine in its beauty.
No trip to the West would be complete without a visit to the stunning 168, 000-hectare World Heritage area of Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair.
And like many a fellow environmentalist, she is concerned that urban sprawl is now encroaching on surrounding conservation areas like Lake Mead, Spring Mountain and Red Rock Canyon.
The final day begins with a 2km trek north from the village of Arbel to the summit of Mount Arbel, an imposing mountain overlooking Lake Galilee, then heads 5km down to the small closed-off ruins of Migdal (biblical Magdala), thought to be the home of Mary Magdalene.
After several slow years, Lake Tahoe, an affluent mountain getaway, is experiencing a flurry of high-end sales.
Some 700 years ago, the story goes, a sadistic bailiff called Gessler decided to teach the people living around the many arms of mountain-flanked Lake Lucerne a lesson in obedience.
Werner also found time to visit Hangzhou, Shanghai's mirror-lake-and-misty-mountain version of the Hamptons ( Escapes), and its ethereal Amanresort, Amanfayun.
The snow comes across the Great Salt Lake Desert, hits the Wasatch mountain range and gets pushed up and turned into light, but consistent powdery snow.
The defendants - Premise Media Corp, of Dallas, Rampant Films of Sherman Oaks, California, and Rocky Mountain Pictures, of Salt Lake City - welcomed the decision.
Mr. Smith was attracted to the home's location in Nevada as well as its proximity to the skiing at the Heavenly Mountain Resort at nearby south Lake Tahoe, adds Ms. Merkelbach.
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The new brand will gradually move to other sports properties in those markets, including the Pittsburgh Penguins and Utah Jazz (Fox Sports Rocky Mountain includes both the Salt Lake City and Denver markets).
Al Grimsley, owner of the Mountain Trail Rider Ranch near Salt Lake City, Utah, retired from the business of selling time-share property.
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The ex-Navy reservist died in a gunfight at a mountain cabin near the Big Bear Lake ski resort, after a massive manhunt across southern California.
Ice palaces have been a winter feature of Saranac Lake since 1898, fitting for a quaint mountain village where winter temperatures can plunge to minus 30 during cold snaps.
The desert estate, which is on 1.56 acres, has panoramic mountain views as well as a private lake and multiple waterfalls.
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Ian Galanis, a broker with Mountain High Real Estate Advisors in Salt Lake City, represented Territory and said increased liquidity is finally seeping back into the Las Vegas market.
Nonetheless, the surveyors now have their eyes on another potential mountain - 609m Illgill Head in the Lake District - which they intend to measure "in the next year or two".
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Schussing your way through the sparkling powder is the premiere reason both outdoor types and the glitterati descend every winter, but Aspen has plenty of all-season activities on hand, from fly-fishing to mountain biking to kayaking in areas such as Snowmass Lake and the Maroon Bells peaks.
The county also has Snowdon, at 1, 085m (3, 559ft) the highest mountain in Wales and England and Wales, while the largest lake in Wales in Llyn Tegid near Bala, which is four miles (6.4km) long.
But the main attraction at Clayoquot is the wilderness itself, and a slate of varied activities include horseback riding, river and ocean kayaking, whale watching, grizzly bear watching, hiking, mountain biking and world-class river, ocean, and lake fishing - some guests come primarily for the angling.
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The man overseeing this sea change is Michel Bonnefous, a school chum of Bertarelli's who still climbs mountains with the billionaire and skims across Lake Geneva on his powerful 12-meter catamaran ("It's a mountain of sail, " he says, with a touch of awe).
The man overseeing this sea change is Michel Bonnefous, a school chum of Bertarelli's who still climbs mountains with the billionaire and skims across Lake Geneva on his powerful 40-foot catamaran ("It's a mountain of sail, " he says, with a touch of awe).
About 130 trained mountain rescuers were to resume searching Sunday for Ruppert, 29, of Lake City, Florida, who was reported missing Thursday by two friends after he failed to show up at a landing zone in the mountains east of Seattle, authorities said.
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