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...leaving, the girls said they would return to finish their burgers, though they never did. The next day the three were scheduled to return to San Francisco, where they would meet Sund's husband Jens, 43, and the foursome would fly to Phoenix for a trip to the Grand Canyon. Jens Sund, who has known Carole since high school and who is a vice president at Carrington Co., did not find his wife at the San Francisco airport and assumed she had flown ahead. She was not in Phoenix either, but he played a round of golf there the next...
...Mountain recently opened the Slides, hundreds of feet of treeless, sheer rock face atop the East Coast's highest vertical drop. The Mount Hood Meadows resort in Oregon runs a Sno-Cat tractor so that skiers and boarders can move 1,000 ft. higher to reach an in-bounds canyon that offers 55[degree]-angle chutes (90[degrees] is vertical...
Believe it or not, this situation had its comic moments. Libby's house was a block from mine in a Bel Air canyon. When the flood rains came, the mudslides simultaneously filled my house and his well-stocked bomb-shelter (food and booze) from floor to ceiling...
Bechtel got on the map in a place that was almost off it: Black Canyon, Nev. With the Depression raging in 1931, Bechtel's father helped organize a consortium called Six Companies to tackle the massive engineering job that became known as Hoover Dam. The consortium bid $49 million and made a profit...
...exhibition at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art caused a new legion of fans and clients to seek him out. In addition to restoring Cracchiolo's house, the architect has a new project in Carmel Valley and recently finished a house in Santa Monica Canyon. Koenig, who teaches at the University of Southern California, isn't completely happy with his lot, though. He wishes his technique of building with glass and steel had been more fully embraced. "It should have taken off, especially in California," he says, partly blaming the building industry for its resistance to the idea. "They...