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...The Ski Club of Great Britain had added the town to its roster of off-piste destinations in response to demand for quieter places among the megaresorts of the Alps. I gather they will return....
...Christian Näf, the jovial goat farmer next door, had agreed to give us a tow on his snowmobile to get us up to the dam, saving us the first 40 minutes or so....
...SYTT has started to get orders for snowmobiles for Arctic excursions. Dozens of the biggest yachts are now shadowed by support vessels for storing yet more helicopters and toys....
...Toshi has snowmobiles positioned at the start of most of the routes....
...Mountain Tracks, part of the venerable Ski Club of Great Britain, has an eight-day adventure in the Svaneti range starting in Kutaisi, Georgia’s second city....
...(The Swedish resort of Salen is even nearer — so close the airport transfer options include snowmobile and dogsled.)...
...The trigger is often a challenging experience, like driving a snowmobile or climbing an ice-covered mountain....
...Driving through Adirondack Park, you see battered snowmobiles sitting alongside pick-up trucks in more than a few Tupper Lake driveways; in one a seaplane has been hauled ashore....
...Gerald Ford took his snowmobile around the official presidential retreat of Camp David (arguably the cheapest and safest option for any president today)....
...Driving snowmobiles through near-impassable woods in minus 39C? It doesn’t sound much like me, a failed sportsman unable to swim or ski or even ride a bicycle....
...The previous day, within hours of arriving in Alaska, my wife and I had gone dog-mushing through the woods, driven snowmobiles through the falling dusk to within 20ft of a moose and her newborn, walked around...
...RF liverpoolphil.com, 0151 709 3789 Gilad Hekselman Trio, March 31, Vortex Jazz Club, London Dalston’s self-styled listening club will be ideal terrain for the US guitarist’s edgy and close-worked downtown...
...The government doesn’t release much data about its balance of payments situation, and even after agreeing a debt reduction with the Paris Club, nobody knows how much external debt Cuba has....
...“Where shall I put the golf clubs?”...
...kingpins were among the richest men in the world, whose eccentric collections ranged from African animals to paintings by Flemish baroque artists such as Peter Paul Rubens, as well as to Ferraris and football clubs...
...Like Fortescue, Anaconda was largely funded on the high yield debt markets....
...And then a fisherman glides past in his dugout canoe and asks if we’d like to see an anaconda....
...The base was so small it did not even have its own kitchen – instead lukewarm meals in insulated boxes were brought over each day from the bigger Anaconda base down the road....
...The ever-entertaining Onion is running a skit about Yamaha of Japan under the headline: Yamaha CEO Pleased With Current Production Of Jet Skis, Alto Saxophones, Snowmobiles, Power Generators, Scooters,...
...The Yellowstone Club is a gated enclave for the seriously rich....
...s top restaurants and clubs, separating them into different groups each night. ?I confess, the lychee martinis were the best part,? Maldonado chuckles. ?...
...“I participated in moving the anacondas to the lakes in the dry season.”...
...The region's main military ground force is 1,600 Canadian Rangers--mostly aboriginal part-time soldiers who run dog-sledge and snowmobile patrols through some of the most inhospitable terrain in the world...
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