The car is self-operating, so use the wall-mounted phone to ring the mountain station before boarding, then pay the 13 Swiss franc round-trip fare as you exit.
To beat the crowds, get an early start on your first day by staying overnight at mountain station Kleine Scheidegg, the departure point for the Jungfraubahn, and catch the 8 am train.
Blink and you will miss Mazama (population 230), little more than a gas station, a cosy mountain inn and a mercantile store that, between November and April, is the last stop on the road west when Highway 20 across the North Cascades to Seattle is closed due to snow.
To experience the best leg of Via's cross-country service, take the Snow Train, which runs from Vancouver's grand beaux arts railroad station through a series of stunning snowbound mountain ranges to the hamlet of Jasper in the middle of 4, 200-square-mile Jasper National Park (home to some of the world's best, least-crowded skiing, at Marmot Basin).
The district no longer includes a naval weapons station, Army fort, or a Marine mountain-warfare training center.
Holme Valley Mountain Rescue Team's current base at Marsden fire station is earmarked to shut as part of West Yorkshire Fire Service cutbacks.
Kenneth Gesalva, one of the injured mountain guides who accompanied the killed German tourists, told television station ANC that he and two other guides saw large rocks roll over at least one of the five foreigners in their hiking party.
The devastating Niigata-Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake of July 16, 2007 caused all units at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station to be shut down, and left us with a mountain of challenges in maintaining stable supply of electricity, making ends meets, and addressing environmental impacts.
The mountain town of Dolceacqua is 7km north and easily reachable by bus (tickets at the train station cost 1.50 euros, one euro cheaper than if you buy them on the bus).
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