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...For some pass holders, that involves crossing continents....
...Next up is the Regent Shanghai on the Bund, a new 15-storey tower on the site of what was the Shanghai International Seamen’s Club and Seagull Hotel, where the Huangpu river meets Suzhou Creek....
...The nearest hotel is a Radisson Blu (radissonhotels.com), but the UK’s Tate and the Aspen Art Museum have booked groups of their patrons into Boen Gård, a historic farm-turned-hotel half an hour’s drive...
...We follow a different route, crossing streams and passing through trembling aspen that crowd in on us. “People hike through here?” asks Camila, hugging the baby close....
...Just before that, the bridge over Bow Creek offers a panorama of the area’s knot of creeks and railway lines....
...According to Savills, the average cost of a property here is equivalent to €9,300 per sq m, a fraction of the priciest North American resort Aspen, at €22,100 per sq m....
...The trail flattens out into a series of very tricky, stony creek crossings until you come to the Ho Pui Downhill....
...With the moon high in the sky, I lay awake reading Tanizaki in bed, looking out through a mesh screen towards the riverine creek....
...That evening, I hang up my skins to dry in my little house at Muddy Creek Cabins. It faces the creek itself, which flows into the Colorado river on the other side of Kremmling....
...Maureen Poschman, 60, sold her employee townhouse in Aspen in 2005, buying a three-bedroom house on a large plot with a garden in Brush Creek....
...Who Sotheby’s International Realty, sothebysrealty.ca, tel +1 (819) 681-7557 Log Home, Colorado, US, $8.8m Where The Maroon Creek valley, close to Aspen....
...Fork Lane, Snowmass Village, Colorado, US, $24.95m Where On the edge of Aspen Snowmass, a five-minute drive from Two Creeks ski resort. Denver airport is a four-hour drive....
...Besides, he wouldn’t be around to collect the cash, having died at his ranch in Woody Creek, eight miles to Aspen’s north, in 2005....
...More snow is forecast this weekend. zellamsee-kaprun.com or kitzsteinhorn.at Wolf Creek The best bet in the US now is Wolf Creek in Colorado, which opened on October 13 with 75cm of new snow and 960 acres...
...On July 1, the crossing gets busier as Hyderites march into Stewart to join the Canada Day parade....
...Ten minutes west of Aspen is Aspen Pitkin County airport ● Denver, the closest major international airport, is four hours from Aspen, two hours from Vail and two hours, 20 minutes from Beaver Creek ● The...
...On our trip, some friends and I rented a cosy log cabin at Aspen Ridge in South Fork, about 20 minutes east of Wolf Creek, since there is no place to stay at the ski area proper....
...Both groups might start by crossing Gstaad, in Switzerland, off their shortlist....
...“On July 4, you’re unlikely to find a slot to land,” says Saslove. The source of Aspen’s wealth tends to come in waves....
...Why The house has amazing views of Pyramid Peak, Aspen Highlands and Maroon Creek....
...It has just completed a second pipeline system in the east of the country, which involved nine river crossings, and has a third one planned for the south....
...The families of Oak Creek, and Tucson, and Blacksburg, and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence – they deserve a simple vote....
...Take care crossing the open ground if the weather’s been wet. For a further selection of walks, go to www.ft.com/walks...
...Quintess has so far focused exclusively on Aspen in the Colorado Rockies....
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