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...mountains have become voracious. Last week avalanches in the Austrian resort towns of Galtur and Valzur killed 38 people. Slides have also struck Chamonix in France and the Valais region in Switzerland. This season more than 70 people have died in Europe, which has seen some of the heaviest snowstorms of the past 40 years. Heavy new snow falling on older snow, strong winds and changing temperatures are conditions favorable to avalanches. In Austria, the snowslides roared through the center of the two towns, crushing houses, cars and people. The avalanches have been so frequent and the weather so horrendous...
Skiers who crave risks and ignore boundaries have always been trouble for resort operators, but now they're a revenue source as well. People are "living a lot closer to the edge of the envelope than we ever were and are looking for something to test them in a different way," says Ralph Walton Jr., chairman of Crested Butte Mountain Resort, which has added a wilderness experience to its mix. Crested Butte has built a new lift to provide access to 550 acres of steep, ungroomed runs called Extreme Limits. It also offers guided snowshoe tours and telemark classes. Says...
Across the country, ski areas are getting wilder. New York's Whiteface 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...
Many backcountry purists, though, want places more isolated than the resorts' wilderness areas, and they'll spend thousands to reach even more remote wilderness zones. Some are traveling to Irwin Lodge, near Crested Butte, which is the largest Sno-Cat resort in the U.S. Co-owner Molly Eldridge says the lodge, which charges $225 a day for skiing, is almost fully booked this year...
...reported on actress Pamela Anderson's harassment by "Hormonal Teenagers" at the Uruguayan beach resort of Punta del Este [PEOPLE, Feb. 8]. You blamed it on "randy Uruguayan boys." However, right now Punta del Este is practically taken over by vacationing Argentines. It seems all too likely that it was young men from Argentina who mobbed her. VERONICA PEINADO Montevideo...