But at the heart of this unpicturesque village 200 kilometers north ofthe Arctic Circle, with its trailer parks and mining-town architecture, burns the pioneering spiritof mountain adventure that far predates the cookie-cutter chalets and sophisticated lift systems that have come to define the modern mainstream ski holiday.
Though this sounds like the definition of a spiritofadventure, there is also the niggling worry that we will arrive in Palm Springs to find... nothing.