27th
August
2008
by Jez Rourke
Ski Resorts for the Advanced Skier
Aspen Snowmass Ski Resort, in Colorado, offers more than 5,200 acres across four mountains, two of them dedicated to advanced skiers. Snowmass is 32-percent Double Black Diamond (steep and/or dangerous terrain icons, to the uninformed). Aspen Mountain offers even more thrills, with 26-percent Black Diamond runs and another 26-percent Double Diamond runs. The mountain, nicknamed Ajax, is renowned for its precipitous slopes and moguls (read “big bumps”, for the uninitiated) that can send the unwary or reckless ski aficionado flying into white space.
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27th
August
2008
by www.KomailNoori.com
It was her aunt’s best friend, Isobel Hutchison, who lured Janet, my British traveling partner, and me, a Canadian, to Alaska in July 2006. Exactly seventy years earlier at age 46, Isobel, an intrepid Scots adventurer, naturalist, and amateur botanist, journeyed across the world to the Aleutian Islands to collect specimens of its unique plant life. We followed in her wake aboard an Alaska State Ferry, island and village hopping, sailing westward from Homer, halfway to Siberia and back, in just seven days.
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posted in US, Alaska, Vacation, Island |
27th
August
2008
by Krista Goon
Here are 10 things you ought to try when you’re in Kuching, Sarawak.
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posted in Asia, Southeast Asia |
27th
August
2008
by Huckleberry
It all started with my mid-life crisis. My youngest child would be starting school soon and I needed to think about re-entering the work force. It was time to answer that age-old question of “what did I want to do when I grew up.” My grandfather had always told me, “Do what you love, be the best at it and the money will take care of itself.”
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