Word: mountains
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...tiny, puppyish Miata sports convertible aside--cars had grown tedious and indistinguishable. A Lexus or a BMW or a Mercedes said, "I've got mine, and I'm rich." A Volkswagen Golf or Ford Escort said nothing whatsoever. Did we need talking cars? Apparently: a Jeep with a mountain bike or kayak rack bolted to the roof said, "I'm doing the Ironman next month." You have to drive something, and if your $299-a-month lease can get you a Ford Explorer and a largely painless reputation for living on the edge...
...dream machines that some owners don't realize are, in fact, trucks? A good bet is that they are scampering away from the honk and fuss and double parking of the world that cars created. TV and magazine ads invariably show pickups and sports utility vehicles parked on a mountain spire or riverside gravel bar, with no pavement or other traffic in sight. Sure. Whether they can get you there in actuality is not important. Even if they are filling-looseners that drive like trucks on washboarded gravel roads, which most of them do, they are unbeatable fantasy machines. Land...
When one group of students began singing "Rocky Mountain High," DeVore responded, "Well, somebody's high," according to those present...
...total of 102 prizes were awarded, including a pair of skis, free ski lift tickets, a twelve-speed mountain bike and espresso machines...
...great relief to Paul Graves, a snowboarding pioneer from Redding, Vermont, who has been fighting an uphill fight for 32 years. "In the early days," says Graves, "back when we were riding these primitive things called snurfers, skiers looked on us as lepers. I remember being escorted off Mammoth Mountain in California by the ski patrol and told never to come back." This week Mammoth is host to a special snowboard competition for women. At the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, in 1998, snowboarding will be introduced as a medal sport. (Park City, Utah, the site of Alpine events...