Who’d have thought that the “world’s only five-billion star concierge alpine skiing” would be in Wyoming? And not in Jackson. And not anywhere even near a respectable ski hill, let alone a ski mountain.
Ever heard of Savery, Wyoming? Me neither. Mr. Google showed me its way out in southern Wyoming just about on the Colorado [...]
Earlier this month I blogged about the growing trend of ski resorts creating expensive, exclusive private membership clubs to coddle (and profit handsomely from) the wealthy. I groused about these clubs because the resorts give these members special privileges to get on the ski lifts before the rest of us. Just yesterday I overheard a [...]
Even if you only have half as many millions in your portfolio this winter as you did last winter, why not spend a little with the Baron Benjamin de Rothschild at his B&B in the French ski resort Megeve?
His Domaine du Mont d’Arbois offers many accommodation choices, but why not book the first floor Baronne [...]
Beaver Creek’s motto is “Not Exactly Roughing It” and about a month from now BC will up the cultural ante for American ski resorts by again hosting The New Yorker magazine’s On The Slopes weekend. Billed as three days of culture: comedy, cartoons, concerts, film previews, “and, of course, superior skiing”, participants will get to [...]
One of the benefits of life in and around established ski towns is the growth in cultural amenities that inevitably go along with them attracting people of varying backgrounds and interests. It was sad and quite surprising to read this morning that the Jackson Film Institute has been forced to close. According to the story [...]