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What better way to enjoy such conditions than by having a mountain in the middle of town? Aspen Mountain, a.k.a. Ajax, certainly has its share of devotees. During skiing hours, its gondola lift moves slowly but constantly up the steep mountain, taking hundreds of vacationers to the top while blocking off wind...
...plop down in a cold puddle of slushy water. You're scooped up off the ground, and you reach to pull down the guard rail. You drop a mitten, then you drop your ski pole. The mitten and the pole land in a stream which runs through a steep, roped-off area...
...supported Baltic resistance. The struggle for independence has been replaced by the more complex and often divisive task of building democratic states from the communist debris. In all three countries, the promise of a bright future that seemed so near has, in the past 12 months, been tempered by steep economic decline, social polarization and political bickering...
...expressionistic sets recall Tod Browning's original 1931 film, Dracula (Bela Lugosi would have felt right at home at Ravenswood), while Martin Pakledinaz's costumes evoke David Lynch's sanguinary 1984 intergalactic flop, Dune. In the famous mad scene, Lucia's descent into insanity is symbolized by a steep staircase, down which the white-gowned murderess floats like her Nosferatu namesake, Lucy Westenra, Coppola's hot-pants vamp extraordinaire...
Getting there requires the skills of a subterranean mountain climber, which is why Lake of the Clouds is off limits to the public. The underground trek involves scrambling through narrow passages, navigating around steep crevasses and using ropes to descend two drop-offs -- the second of which encompasses a 60-m (200 ft.) cliff. Turn off the miner's light on your helmet, and you cannot see your hand in front of your face...