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...Elk Mountain Ranch itself was once advertised, at $20mn, with a quantity of BLM land, a description of its “National Park-type landscape” and a mention of the American Indians who used to live there....
...The garden has whimsical features, or “caprichos”, such as the Casita del Pescador (Fisherman’s Cottage) and the Montaña de los Gatos (Cat Mountain), once home to the park’s stray cats....
...Holiday and caravan parks have been left submerged by days of heavy rainfall....
...The diggers are moving 40,000 cubic metres of earth a day, cutting a mountain in half as they lay the foundations for a new cluster of chipmaking facilities that will include the world’s largest three-storey...
...“If mountain climbers have Everest,” the instructor says, “we have barbecue restaurants.” It’s a hard climb....
...to illegal limitations on the property rights of homeowners....
...He now owns a 266,000 acre ranch, valued at more than $320mn, about three and a half hours west of Fort Worth....
...There’s a new gondola and chairlift, the beginners’ area has been moved up to the “Greenhorn Ranch” at mid-mountain, and there are 650 acres of new experts’ terrain at Mahogany Ridge....
...The 120-year-old mountain hut had also been branded by the Italian designer for the season....
...It catered to station (ranch) hands, miners and swagmen. And then, in 2013, the Quamby’s landlord walked away, leaving it to rot....
...In the middle of the Covid-19 shutdown in 2020, Park Hyatt and Ritz-Carlton also opened their resorts in the Niseko area....
...A glaciologist and the president of the Association of Icelandic Mountain Guides, Helga loves howling weather. “Let’s have an adventure!” she cries, issuing crampons....
...A 10-minute walk from the Shadow Mountain chairlift, the hotel’s roof-terrace lounge bar, with plunge pool and views of Aspen Mountain, promises to become a fixture on the après-ski scene....
...Climbing electricity prices last year boosted uptake, according to Rolf Hagemoen, secretary-general of the Norwegian Heat Pump Association, who recently installed one in his mountain cabin....
...David Coggins and James Harvey-Kelly stayed as guests of The Ranch at Rock Creek, from $2,000 per night for two...
...“But we do have to be careful and to remind people to be respectful, that these places aren’t theme parks.”...
...Some city councils are working to block the development of new courts to limit the noise, while a handful of homeowners associations have resorted to lawsuits....
...Jozsef Benke, president of Zetelaka hunting association, said the 2016 hunting ban had severely diminished hunting associations’ revenue, given that nearly half of their revenue came from bear sales....
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...My 111km race here in Nice (the “100K” category; there are also 100-mile, 50km and 20km races) runs through the mountainous Mercantour National Park down to the seafront....
...Thin clouds clung to the edging mountains to avoid extinction in the blue above. And then we turned and began to climb into the hills....
...A domestic vacation homeowner does not.” Foreign buyers, in fact, make up only a small proportion of Vancouver’s property market....
...In the last 20 years, the town of Ibitipoca, on the other side of the mountains, near the entrance to the park, has gone from sleepy village to a depressing chaos of cafés and guest houses, ATV and dirt...
...Walking easy, well-maintained paths within sight of the world’s highest mountains was blissful....
...Clearly visible even on his phone screen were the strips of bare land running eastward from the park’s boundary in a fishbone pattern: tell-tale signs of the way logging activity has penetrated ever deeper...
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