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...kick-and-glide set, many of whom have never skied before. The allurement is the sport's unhurried solitude. At big downhill resorts there are often agonizing waits for ski lifts, and eateries are jammed. Mobs of hot-doggers and snow bunnies have turned Stowe and Vail into adrenalized assembly lines of sport. At the Home Ranch the pace slows. Its 580 aspen-studded acres offer cross-country skiers 20 miles of trails glistening in 2 ft. of new powder. Twenty guests-the inn's capacity-enjoy wine-and-cheese parties in the meadows, photograph elk, ermine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Cross-Country Inns Are In | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

...guess," said the Intern. "But they all look like condominiums at Vail or something...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Chivalry | 8/4/1981 | See Source »

There was the time, for instance, when Jaclyn was shot full of heroin and did not even know it, the time the three beautiful detectives all went killer-hunting on the ski slopes at Vail - all those wildly implausible climaxes that framed the weekly beauty pageant, shoot-'em-up farce and national phenomenon known as Charlie's Angels. "And we're going to decide right now," says Bosley (David Doyle), the den father who romps but never flirts with the Angels, "that it has all been worth it. Every damn minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Farewell to a Phenomenon | 6/8/1981 | See Source »

...room Georgian mansion, a swimming pool, stables and magnolia trees. The bright red hair that earned him the nickname of his youth is now sparse and streaked with gray, but the strapping, 6-ft. 2-in. Blount keeps trim with frequent tennis matches and ski trips to Vail, Colo. On jaunts to visit construction sites around the U.S., he sometimes personally pilots one of his company's three de Havilland jets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saudi Jackpot | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

With that in mind, Vail, Colo., a densely settled ski resort, has limited the number of wood fireplaces or wood stoves to one per dwelling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cooling of America | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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