All three mountains offer floodlit night skiing on a portion of their runs which, after dark, resemble low-flying spaceships suspended high above the chocolate-orange glow of metro Vancouver.
With average yearly snow accumulation of 33 feet, a vertical drop of 3, 500 feet and 3, 500 acres of skiable terrain ranging over three mountains, Sunshine is one of Canada's most inviting locations.
It is also one of the traditional "Three Holy Mountains" - along with Mount Tate and Mount Haku, both in central Japan.
Combat Outpost Keating had been built at the bottom of three steep mountains, providing the enemy from day one with a tactical advantage.
Long a little-known ski getaway, Sun Peaks Resort comprises three different mountains and more than 3, 600 acres of skiable terrain, making it the third largest ski resort in Canada.
But whereas the base in the Korangal was situated about halfway up a mountainside, in a former lumberyard, the one in Kamdesh would sit in a cup within the valley's deepest cleft, ringed by three steep mountains that formed part of the 500-mile-long Hindu Kush mountain range.
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The first went up to the mountains three years ago, when he was 20.
Trapped on three sides by high mountains, this warm, moist air forms huge clouds that then discharge electricity in powerful cloud-to-cloud storms.
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The Aspen Pitkin Co. airport is surrounded by high mountains on three sides, so it is in something of a box canyon.
While the allied and Afghan forces pressed into Paktia's mountains, three Afghan fighters died Thursday in Kandahar, the former Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan.
Gen Troshev said it would take his forces two to three weeks to comb the mountains for remaining small pockets of rebels.
After recuperating with sleep and espresso (every room has a Nespresso machine), the first stop was Wolgan Valley Resort in the Blue Mountains, a three hour drive away (including the last half hour on a spine rattling, studded dirt road).
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The Ecuadorian Andes are a fiendish proposition for any transport planner: a three-mile high spine of mountains that runs down the centre of the country, unfolding into high plateaus, fissuring into canyons and sheltering mist-shrouded old towns.
Gets back on the bike and learns that his thinner, ravaged body lacks its former explosive power but, in fact, is now better suited for three-week stage races in the mountains.
In 2002 three of my brothers were snowmobiling in the mountains of Colorado when, snow blinded by a sudden squall, they daisy chained over a 400 foot cliff.
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During a recent month in Chalten the weather was good enough for Jim and me to venture into the mountains four times and three times it turned foul not long after getting to basecamp.
Set in the dense forests of the Kii Mountains overlooking the Pacific Ocean, three sacred sites - Yoshino and Omine, Kumano Sanzan, Koyasan - linked by pilgrimage routes to the ancient capital cities of Nara and Kyoto, reflect the fusion of Shinto, rooted in the ancient tradition of nature worship in Japan, and Buddhism, which was introduced from China and the Korean Peninsula.
The New Jersey native, who lives at an altitude of 7, 500 feet, hikes and skis the nearby mountains when she's not chasing after her three kids.
This exclusive 2, 600-acre gated enclave 40 miles and some 45 minutes from mid-town Manhattan, nestled in the Ramapo Mountains, boasts 100 year-old trees, three pristine lakes, an 18-hole golf course, and a significant spectrum of European-style architecture.
The search for Christopher Dorner had three states and Mexico on alert before shifting Thursday afternoon to the snowy mountains around Big Bear Lake, about 80 miles east of Los Angeles, where police found his burned-out pickup truck.
The developments came three days after a shootout, standoff and fire at a cabin in the mountains east of Los Angeles.
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For much of the past three decades, the army managed to confine the guerrillas to remote jungles and mountains, where they impinged little on the economy and national life.
Spencer's summer has been spent in various training camps "working on strength and speed", none more demanding than a three-day stint at the Army's training base near the Brecon Beacons mountains in South Wales.
Three people have been taken to Raigmore Hospital by air following an avalanche in the Cairngorm mountains.
Three others were missing in floods that followed 6 inches of rain in the rugged Ouachita Mountains near Y City, 125 miles west of Little Rock.
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With shape-shifting scenery reminiscent of an eerie moonscape or the gnarled mountains of Caucasia, Durmitor offers visitors the most splendid of isolation, all just three hours from the coast.
Each submission to the Journal was accompanied by a single-spaced letter of two or three pages, bringing me up to date on his travels, his retreat in the Rocky Mountains, his thoughts on events outside the realm of his columns.
Both are in Pigeon Forge, a small town at the foothills of Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains National Park where Parton famously grew up as one of 12 children crammed into a three-room cabin.
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