In ski-crazy Europe, ascending mountains the old-fashioned way never did go out of style.
The good news is that Lake Tahoe finally has a premier ski-in, ski-out resort.
If Europeans prefer time on the ski-slopes to extra pay, that seems fair enough.
"We are best known for our remote polar services utilizing ski-equipped Twin Otter, " it said.
Fragments of ski-like objects, discovered by 1960s archaeologist Grigoriy Burov, date back to 6000 BC in northern Russia.
That power makes it easy to pop up onto a water-ski-size board and surf off across the waves.
How on earth were such folk outsmarted by a provincial hick best known for its Ski-Doos and Sea-Doos?
They're having ski - having ski tournaments or ski races without the snow.
It was the only Aspen hotel to survive long pre-ski-resort winters, silver booms and busts, the Depression, and wars.
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Then she grabs two ski-pole-like handles, presses a button and waits as beams of light trace over her body.
An average 5.6 million viewers tuned in to see former ski-jumper Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards win the final show on Saturday.
But beleaguered American Skiing (nyse: SKI - news - people ) is struggling to stave off NYSE delisting.
The mountain's 900-foot vertical drop is the largest in the upper Midwest and double that of most others in the ski-crazed Northwoods.
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"This is America, " said Ed Klim, president of the International Snowmobile Manufacturers Association, which represents Ski-Doo, a unit of Bombardier Recreational Products Inc.
Known commonly as the ski-doo, it first appeared on the Finnish market in 1962 and the Sami people used them to revolutionise reindeer herding.
Chappuis, the pre-event favorite, had been fifth behind leader Janne Ryynaenen of Finland after the opening ski-jumping discipline, but quickly made up lost ground.
Another possibility is that these guys spend all their time training in ski-towns, where there is little to do after dark besides drink and eat.
An investigation has been launched into the safety of a ski-lift after a teenage girl died when she fell during a school trip to Italy.
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Middleton notes that December 2007 will see the opening of 60 ski-in, ski-out suites at the base of Big Sky, units expressly designed for slope-side entertaining.
By the late '60s, he was a University of Washington forestry student, a "young greenie" worried about clumsy ski-resort developers laying waste to nearby mountain passes.
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Your interceptor vehicle will now transform into other vehicles, such as a motorcycle or a jet ski - all dependent on what environment you are driving in.
He worked odd jobs, as a cart boy at a golf course, a ski-lift operator and a janitor (he uses his janitor ID as his Twitter avatar).
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As newcomers curse the building trucks on their way to the ski-slopes, some business leaders say the entire political debate of cattle versus cul-de-sacs is missing the point.
"We've got two trains going into a tunnel, a moving ski-slope which was hand-built, a church and nativity scene, " said Ms Hales, who helps decorate her partner's parents' bungalow.
If you look around, you see the cameras are ubiquitous, dangling from the mouths of surfers, held up by spectators and strapped to the helmets of Jet Ski-zipping water rescuers.
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The chambermaids and ski-lift attendants are being priced out.
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In a valley where the houses are spread out for miles around the talismanic Lone Mountain, he anticipates that there will be plenty of takers for the ski-resort equivalent of a stadium box.
Known as a ski-resort city, the tourist destination has attracted celebrities and affluent socialites for decades helping to transform the Aspen real estate market into a mix of high-end luxury homes and condos.
Those looking for ski-in, ski-out lodging can bunk up at the Aries Hotel, Acuario Hotel, Escorpio Hotel, Piscis Hotel and Virgo Hotel, all large-scale luxury accommodations located at the base.
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