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...snowmaking machine, an equipment shop, a ski school and a lodge. On winter weekends, as many as 2,400 people turn out to ski down what they call "Bintz's Bump" or "Bintz's Folly." Some folly. Near by, Farmer Bintz is scraping together another 250-ft. slope...
...Vail area (see box page 60), puts it this way: "Skiing is a total experience. You can be completely absorbed in what you are doing. You can take a problem onto the golf course with you, but you can't take it with you onto the slope. It's kind of cleansing...
...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...
...just 61 words. But this spring, Bach surfaced in a series of TV shows and autograph sessions. The result: Jonathan's sales soared from 5,000 a week to as high as 60,000 a day. Much of that jump derives from the Bach personality. A big, slope-shouldered, raw-wristed man, Bach wears a bushy mustache, a crinkly smile and a slightly bemused expression. He has a remarkable gift for saying tentatively, and with disarming humor, things that ought to sound pretentious or phony or both, but instead convince and captivate his listeners. The result is that after meeting...
Bucking the high-heeled trend is the KalsØ Earth Shoe, which is made with contoured wooden soles that slope downward toward the back. The KalsØ company claims that having the heels lower than the soles results in a natural, barefoot style of walking and a more erect stance, thus avoiding "the fatigue and aches caused by living in a cement-coated world." The price for the barefoot feeling: from...