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Skiers who insist on posher treatment could look up Leonard-Ayer Expeditions, which is based in an old mining town in Idaho called Stanley (pop. 99). Joe Leonard, 46, a bearded, Idaho-born mountain man, expects to guide about 150 people this season into the Sawtooth Mountains, twice as many as three years ago. Camps for the tours are a couple of huts and a yurt, a large, round, tentlike structure, set a day's journey apart at the edge of the Sawtooth wilderness...
...renown, prepares all the trekkers' food in Stanley, then has it delivered to the huts by toboggan. Their partners are David Ayer, 37, a financial planner from Massachusetts, and his wife Lexa, 36, who split their time between Boston and Stanley. Ayer proposed to Lexa outside one of the Sawtooth yurts four years ago, after the third day of a five-day tour. It was -48 degrees F, and he wanted to see whether she had the right attitude toward touring...
...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 as they are supposed to do on mountain trips, and inside, feet wiggled in sleeping bags. For the Sawtooth voyagers, this day's chapter ended early...
...blaze scorched a considerable portion of the Lake Chelan-Sawtooth Wilderness Area, about 90 miles northeast of Seattle...
...voice-recognition systems in most of these devices can be compared to a human searching through a key ring for duplicate pairs of keys; by aligning two keys at a time, he can quickly locate any pairs that have identical sawtooth patterns. In the electronic equivalent, a spoken command is transformed into a varying electrical current that can be represented by a wave with a characteristic set of peaks and troughs. This wave form (see diagram) is converted into a template, a pattern of zeros and ones that the computer can digest and store. By prerecording a number...