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...Dalmations. "It's like children's day care. They get time outs and treats," says owner Lisa Schettino, adding, "Some of the dogs are cliquey." And for those who are forced to leave their dogs overnight at places that used to be called kennels, there are now Canyon Ranch--style options. At Tappen Hill, in the wine country north of San Francisco, $36 a night will get a pup access to heated floors, two swimming pools and lots of scheduled activities...
DIED. SUE SALLY HALE, 65, trailblazer for women in the clannish sport of polo; of apparently natural causes; at her polo ranch in the Coachella Valley, Calif. Beginning in the early 1950s, when women were still barred, Hale competed as "A. Jones," a mustachioed man. "Gentlemen," she liked to admonish her male-chauvinist opponents, "better boys than you have tried." Bowing in part to pressure from Hale and her friends, who vowed to publicize the fact that she had been duping them for years, the U.S. Polo Association admitted women...
...into a Russian couple on a hiking trail, a German family in the visitor's center and a French family in my hotel. "Because there is no desert in Europe, Europeans come to experience the extremes," says Toni Jepson, manager of public relations for Furnace Creek Inn & Ranch. "They are almost disappointed if they don't feel 120º...
Although there are plenty of activities for the young--bike trips, hikes in the numerous canyons and swimming at the family-oriented Furnace Creek Ranch--Death Valley has become especially popular with middle-age vacationers and retirees. The 45-and-older set represents the majority of the 500 residents who work as store clerks, waiters, registrars, maids and guides. "The young look for excitement, the older for peace," says Jepson, 60. Jepson and her husband Calvin, 57, the Inn & Ranch's general manager, came to work for only two years but decided to stay indefinitely. "We grew to love...
...here, is still discovering new things. There are the mysterious moving boulders on the Racetrack's remote dry lake bed, for example, or the beehive-shaped charcoal kilns of Wildrose Canyon. Just the other day Woodruff came across a scenic Depression-era back road that runs between Furnace Creek Ranch and Stovepipe Wells. "The magic of this place," he says, "makes me hunger for Death Valley more each year...