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While scientists and politicians debate the complexities of global warming, skiers and boarders have simpler concerns about the earth's weather patterns - namely where the best snow will fall. With low-altitude resorts being denied loans by banks and statistical projections suggesting that winter sports below 2,000 m will become a luxury of the past, skiing in Alaska's Chugach Range, a few hundred kilometers south of the Arctic Circle, makes more than good sense. It may soon be a necessity...
...small collection of cabins and the center of the operation. From there skiers and boarders take off in AStar helicopters and flit over the magnificent empty wilderness of the Chugach Range. Being this far north and so close to the sea, the Chugach receives an extraordinary amount of snow with a stability unmatched elsewhere. It is possible to ski or board pitches of as much as 60 degrees - truly astonishing when you consider the steepest runs in most resorts are only about 35 degrees...
...just last week that snow fell on Anne Hathaway’s procession down Mass Ave., but now, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals honoree will be announcing this year’s Oscar nominees in sunny Beverly Hills...
Watch out, world. They are coming after you, on skeleton sleds, speed skates and, oh yeah, while wielding big old curling brooms. They used to be the nice guys (and gals); now they'd rather leave you buried in the snow on a ski trail. They will no longer be embarrassed...
...Anne J. Hathaway proceeded down Mass. Ave atop a fire engine red Bentley convertible, the fair-skinned actress did not seem to mind the chill of the falling snow as scantily clad, cross-dressing men from the Hasty Pudding Theatricals fawned over...