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...some of the world's best skiing. "Powder" snow, the best of all, is often hip-deep in Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho and Utah. The snow is more granular and less plentiful in the East, where the air is wetter and the mountains smaller than in the West. Eastern slopes are also icier and thus harder to negotiate. Yet skiers who practice on this Eastern "boiler plate" learn of necessity to dig their ski edges deeper into the hill and tend to have better control. The quality of the snow at most European resorts lies somewhere in between the West...
...fare to the ski areas varies widely. For example, Chicago to Denver is $115 round trip; the fare from Chicago to Burlington, Vt., is $138. These costs may drop drastically next year if the Federal Aviation Administration approves United Air Lines' plan to halve the price of tickets bought 90 days in advance. Air fare forms a major part of the cost of any European trip. A wintertime flight from New York to Zurich or Geneva is $238 round trip; charter flights can be considerably less...
...listing of the greatest ski areas is both arbitrary and incomplete. But certain areas must be included in any compilation because they offer unsurpassed skiing or high-style après-ski atmosphere or low-cost accessibility-or all of that. Among them...
...VALLEY, IDAHO. The dowager queen of American ski areas, the val ley has been rejuvenated in recent years. New lifts have doubled the area's up hill capacity and largely eliminated lines; new trails on Baldy's north side have given skiers a place to go when the sun turns the south slope to mashed potatoes. The Lodge, built in 1936, still offers European-type elegance to a wealthy clientele, but new condominiums and medium-priced restaurants are attracting more middle-income families. Cost for a week...
...ASPEN, COLO. Two hundred tricky miles west of Denver, Aspen- the world's largest ski resort-has four mountains. Buttermilk (9,720 ft.) caters to novices; Snowmass (10,645) and As pen Highlands (11,665) are for inter mediates; Aspen Mountain (11,212) is for experts. Aspen is a skier's town. People who patronize the area are more likely to spend their money on equipment than on clothing; they ski well and party hard. Long hair and gunfighter's mustaches are de rigueur among the younger men in the old mining town. A week: around...