Word: huts
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Jaded skiers, take heart. A civilized but still adventurous alternative, long pursued in the Alps and in Scandinavia, is catching on in the U.S. Skiers trek across the snow for several days, covering a few miles a day and sleeping overnight in huts and tents high in the mountains. Accommodations range from the rustic to the comfortable, complete with cocktails and elaborate meals. Though hut-to-hut skiing can be found throughout the northern U.S., it is most popular in the West. "The huts are really in vogue," says Dick Jackson, head of a ski-tour company in Aspen, Colo...
...Sawtooths are magnificent, jagged mountains, precisely described by their name, but their high valleys and lightly forested benchlands are gentle enough so that the five-mile march to the first hut at 6,900 ft. is no hardship, even for inexperienced skiers. Leonard has taken clients as young as six and as old as 70 over the route, he says, and only rarely has anyone had difficulty...
Camp that night was in a high, alpine meadow at the base of 10,035-ft. Goat Peak. Alas, the hot tub at the hut there was broken. But dinner was an elegant beef bourguignon. Caryl showed the foresight of a veteran trekker, never mind kick turns, by pulling a bottle of Jack Daniel's out of her pack. Simmie Salembier, 42, a caterer from Los Angeles, turned out to have a canteen full of rum. Aching muscles told the day's history, and would retell it more insistently the next morning. Outside, stars snapped in the clear sky, just...
When Alberto Nunez returned to the remains of his home near the devastated town of Armero last week, he was startled to see smoke curling from the earthen hut of one of his neighbors, Maria Rosa Elvira Echeverry, 66. A closer look revealed a miracle. Twenty-four days after mudslides triggered by the volcanic eruption of Nevado del Ruiz had laid waste to the town and killed 23,000 people, there was Echeverry, safe and relatively sound, in her partially mud-covered house. She had survived on a diet of cracked barley, raw sugar and rice...
Tuesday morning, Jerry and the Scripture-Screamers toured the slum area of Tondo. "Hiya, fella," Falwell said, greeting a naked native in his spartan cardboard hut. He presented the man with a bullet-proof Bible and the Scripture-Screamers' recent album, "Welfare Queen." "If you pray hard, maybe you'll get a record player," he said...