Word: creeks
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...hardcore ski bums might have awakened Tuesday morning and blinked their eyes in disbelief, but Clear Creek County, Co., where I live, ranks first in the U.S. for longevity, according to a Harvard School of Public Health study appearing in the Sept. 12 issue of Public Library of Science Medicine...
...fact, seven Colorado counties are the top seven ranked counties in the nation, all with a life expectancy of 81.3 years. And it hardly seems coincidental that all seven - Clear Creek, Eagle, Gilpin, Grand, Jackson, Park and Summit - lie either on, near or adjoining the Continental Divide and are spectacularly beautiful...
...could be the space. In Clear Creek County, there are 184,191 acres of public land, which means approximately 19.75 acres of national forest for each of our 9,322 residents. You don't spend a lot of time waiting in lines...
...says. "It was late afternoon, and in the fading sunlight the snow-capped top of Grand Teton looked like molten gold." Floor-to-ceiling window walls ensure guests also enjoy this glittering view. Perched on a butte in Teton Valley and set among the sprawling acres of Spring Creek Ranch, the hotel stands apart from other five-star resorts clustered in the nearby ski village...
...Springvale homestead, an hour's drive from Halls Creek, was the home of legendary cattleman and bush poet Tom Quilty. Until the 1886 gold rush, the station was one of this region's few inhabited places. Historian Geoffrey Blainey described men with gold lust traveling the final 1,000 km from Katherine. "The manager of Spring Vale reported that 'great numbers of men from Queensland have passed by, some of them very undesirable characters, who prefer picking their own beef and horse-flesh,'" he writes in The Rush That Never Ended. "They faked the brands on their stolen horses with...