The daughter of a paper company chief executive, Prevot grew up in York, Pennsylvania and went to high school at Burke Mountain Academy, a skiing-focused boarding school in East Burke, Vermont.
Those who have made the cut include former Congressman Jack Kemp, skiing-movie producer Warren Miller (who serves as the club's director of skiing), former Vice President Dan Quayle, bicycle racer Greg LeMond and golfer Annika Sorenstam.
If you are a beginner, the Methow Valley Ski School offers lessons in classic cross-country skiing and more technical skate-skiing at three locations, Winthrop, Mazama and the Sun Mountain Lodge.
Here, you can try heli-skiing and heli-fishing in one trip, cruise in a glass-bottomed boat and swim with sharks or eat poached beef fillet with horseradish gnocchi for dinner and simple, traditional country eggs and bacon for breakfast.
The 1880s saw a shift from Nordic skiing (cross-country skiing), to Alpine skiing (downhill skiing), because the adrenaline rush of gliding down a mountainside had more mass appeal than skiing across level terrain.
Skate-skiing, a faster but harder-to-master skate-style motion that originated in Europe in the 1980s, is growing in popularity across North America, and the Methow has plenty of dedicated followers.
It has 135 trails and 20 lifts spread across more than 3, 000-acres, renowned tree skiing for experts, plenty of cruisers for beginners and intermediates, even in-bounds sno-cat skiing, something very few resorts offer.
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Biathlon combines cross-country skiing with shooting at targets - with the threat of extra distance to ski or time penalties if a competitor misses.
There is also plenty of skiing, snowboarding and cross-country skiing to be done elsewhere in the country, where the mountains may not soar as high as the Alps, but assets include cheaper prices, smaller crowds and a less frenetic atmosphere.
As I mentioned, it has spas, plenty of non-skiing activities, and is especially notable for its on-mountain dining.
The only way to reach the restaurant is about an hour of cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, or a cold ride on a horse-drawn sleigh.
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But not every ski destination has an easily accessible refilling station or rental point, particularly for those heli-skiing in remote locations.
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YouTube, the original video-sharing website, became famous for water-skiing squirrels and bedroom musings.
If it goes ahead, the speed restriction will effectively mean the end of sports boats and activities such as water-skiing.
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Most of all, Vail has a huge slate of non-skiing family activities.
Yet the commercial shot for South Africa shows young white things jet-skiing about and dancing in discos in Cancun and Miami Beach.
During a visit to Pistorius' house a few years ago, he showed CNN images of himself water-skiing, scuba diving and quad bike riding.
Many Alaskans revel in the biting air and the pure white of the winter landscape, not to mention the skiing, ice-climbing and snow machine-riding.
Some cater to one activity, such as golf, skiing or fly-fishing.
I. in 1995, featuring weird sports like kite-skiing and bungee jumping.
The show was to have featured displays of boats across the city's docks and a programme of demonstrations including championship sailing, wake-boarding, power boat racing, and water-skiing.
Already a prime place for mountain biking, fishing, water-skiing and hunting, the Rotorua Lakes region recently laid claim to hiking as well, with the opening of the 15km Tarawera Trail in December 2013.
While at the camp, guests can participate in a variety of activities, including exploring ice caves, visiting a nearby science base, kite-skiing or touring a colony of Emperor penguins, where more than 6, 000 of the flightless birds nest and raise their chicks.
Some visitors use it as a base for hiking or heli-skiing (it's open only for day trips in winter), while many do nothing more strenuous than taking photos or reading on the deck, rousing themselves only for another estimable lunch.
On the one hand, Telluride is a very affluent town with high real estate prices, on par with places like Aspen and Deer Valley, and as a result it has all the support industry, like dining, spas, services, and off slope activities like heli-skiing and dog sledding.
Practiced by humans since prehistoric times using wooden ski-shaped contraptions, cross-country skiing was popularised as a sport by the Norwegian military in the mid-1700s and was first imported to North America by Scandinavian immigrants in the 1850s.
It includes ice-skating and skiing competitions, photography exhibitions and even rime-inspired poetry competitions.
But the U.S. typically has been weak in Winter Olympics staples like ski jumping and cross-country skiing.
It is a misconception to think that cross-country skiing is confined purely to flat terrain.
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