Hints and tips:
...The Elk Mountain Ranch manager, Steven Grende, kept a closer eye on the hunters this time. He was in charge of patrolling for trespassers....
...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....
...We park at the start of a hiking trail that leads steeply through pine forests to the summit of Buffalo Mountain, at just shy of 4,000m. Like the guys at Bluebird, Pacharz is big on educating rookies....
...A couple of months ago, for the second year, Pizzinini hosted cult American fitness outfit The Ranch Malibu at Rosa Alpina for five consecutive seven-day retreats....
...Economic Summit on a trout ranch in Idaho earlier this month....
...Mountains and glaciers, dwarfing the tiny cluster of ranch buildings they built on the wind-swept foreshore, marked their boundaries....
...the summit of Mount Le Conte at 6,360ft....
...The 20,000 sq ft Four Peak Ranch in the Rocky Mountains outside Aspen, priced at $60m through Douglas Elliman Fine Homes/Knight Frank, is set on 876 acres....
...As we approach the summit of Spruce Mountain we stop just below the snow line, where Pickens and her director of operations Monty Heath (a former Navy Seal) greet us with a picnic....
...Cresto Ranch, which opens this weekend, consists of eight tents for two (rentable at $1,400 per night) on the banks of the Dolores river between Telluride and Cortez....
...Five years ago, reporters covering Allen & Co’s annual Sun Valley summit were scrambling around the floor of the lodge where the world’s media and technology leaders gather each July, helping Rupert Murdoch...
...Eventually, the summit was in sight but I couldn’t go on....
...With a last exertion, we throw ourselves down on the mountain’s summit. Nothing disturbs the silence, save the rustling of grasses in the wind....
...Parker, who resembles a young Owen Wilson in caramel overalls, speeds us up to a summit commanding a view high over the ranch. Our boys, who are 13 and 11, are both loving it....
...Who will run our largest corporations when the chief executive is halfway up a mountain?...
...Late on Wednesday evening, some of the key players in the Microsoft-Yahoo takeover saga gathered for an informal summit in the Sun Valley bar....
...In Wyoming, home to the mountain resort of Jackson Hole, existing home sales plummeted 42 per cent in the fourth quarter of last year, according to the National Association of Realtors....
...But for those interested in seeing the most powerful media moguls of the era in the intimacy of their hiking shorts, there remains one indispensable gathering: the annual Allen & Co summit at the Sun Valley...
...He has spent the day at King Abdullah’s ranch – a kind of Crawford in the desert....
...Arriving at the presidential retreat in the Catoctin Mountains, Blair sought assurance that Bush would go to the United Nations....
...Brokeback Mountain chronicles the love affair between two cowboys (ranch hand Heath Ledger, rodeo rider Jake Gyllenhaal) in an America moving through three decades in the 20th century’s second half....
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