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  • A LAST-MINUTE SPRING BREAK
    Backyard Vacations | Beach Vacations | Cruises & All-Inclusive | Destinations | Families & Groups | Food and Dining | Getting There | Lodging | Parks & Outdoors | Snow Vacations | Weekly Column

    A LAST-MINUTE SPRING BREAK

    Byuser March 16, 2008July 8, 2021

    What are you waiting for? Spring Break is looming and you haven’t planned a getaway. We’re not talking a Big Trip — a cruise, for example, or an adventure trip to Costa Rica, though, according to Travelzoo.com, there are good last-minute deals to be had in Costa Rica.

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  • You can have fun and help out in New Orleans
    Backyard Vacations | Destinations | Families & Groups | Food and Dining | Travel Diaries | Volunteer & Service

    You can have fun and help out in New Orleans

    Byuser March 14, 2008June 28, 2023

    I just got back from New Orleans and it was packed with spring breakers. They were doing their share of drinking on Bourbon Street but they were also doing their share of helping to clear debris and build houses in neighborhoods that still have not rebounded nearly three years after Hurricane Katrina.

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  • To a favorite Colorado ski town that’s as much fun in summer as winter
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    To a favorite Colorado ski town that’s as much fun in summer as winter

    Byuser March 9, 2008July 14, 2021

    A gem of a mountain (no lift lines here!) just minutes on a free, festively painted shuttle bus from the tiny (less than 2,500 people) town of Mt. Crested Butte, so steeped in mining history that most of the downtown area, with its wooden, multicolored, 19th-century buildings, is on the National Register of Historic Places. (Ever see a two-story outhouse?)

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  • Family Ski Trip Mode
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    Family Ski Trip Mode

    Byuser March 6, 2008July 14, 2021

    We’re in family ski trip mode. Everyone having a big bacon and eggs breakfast in pajamas. A lot of teasing is afoot. Thirteen year old Eva decides she’ll ski with us rather than go to ski school. We’re all impressed at how well she skis.

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  • Not many fur coats in this crowd
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    Not many fur coats in this crowd

    Byuser March 5, 2008July 14, 2021

    Mel seems to be rebounding from her fall and disappointment during the Junior Extremes qualifying run down a terrifyingly steep slope. Everyone has been telling her it’s a lot better to give your all than to not try. That she didn’t succeed just goes with the territory. It helps when she learns a lot of other kids fell on the same run.

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  • A Tumble Down the Mountain
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    A Tumble Down the Mountain

    Byuser March 4, 2008July 5, 2021

    All Mel wants is to qualify, which means skiing in control down what looks to me like a sheer cliff studded with rocks and boulders! Only about half of the teens who are here will actually qualify.

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  • Snowshoe day — There’s More to Do In CB than Just Ski
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    Snowshoe day — There’s More to Do In CB than Just Ski

    Byuser March 3, 2008July 14, 2021

    It’s a perfect blue sky day. The sun is shining…the snow crisp under our snowshoes. There’s hardly anyone else out on the trail — just a few other snow shoers and Nordic skiers with their dogs, and an occasional snow mobiler. We see the tracks where hardy skiers have come to back country ski, hiking up so they can ski down pristine powder.

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  • Touring colleges in the heart of college country – Boston
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    Touring colleges in the heart of college country – Boston

    Byuser March 2, 2008October 3, 2023

    It wasn’t the choice of restaurant that was making me so happy this particular Saturday night. It was that we’d survived a day of college touring in Boston without a melt down, without stalking off a campus, without tears and with everyone still speaking-and even more surprising, smiling.

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  • The Muellers Have Big Plans for Crested Butte
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    The Muellers Have Big Plans for Crested Butte

    Byuser February 29, 2008July 14, 2021

    The first phase is the new Lodge at Mountaineer Square and the Mountaineer Conference Center where we’re staying, just steps from the lifts.
    The lodge and conference center wrap around a cozy courtyard, in which guests can find visitor services, dining and shopping. Here the Crested Butte Adventure Center serves as the “resort concierge,” a one-stop shopping venue.

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  • Organized Chaos — Getting the Kids (and Grownups) Ready to Ski
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    Organized Chaos — Getting the Kids (and Grownups) Ready to Ski

    Byuser February 28, 2008July 14, 2021

    Organized chaos. Three adults, four college kids, two teens, and a five year-old and three year-old getting ready for a ski day. I‘ve got a sinus infection so I opt not to ski today. I take 13-year-old Eva to the “teen” class. Ellen Osterling, who oversees the kids’ programs, says the ski school tries to offer teen classes every day — even if they have to send out a teen with his own instructor.

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  • Back to Crested Butte — where there’s plenty of snow
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    Back to Crested Butte — where there’s plenty of snow

    Byuser February 27, 2008October 4, 2023

    We’re heading to Crested Butte Mountain Resort in Colorado to meet up with an assortment of family, all staying at a condo in the spanking new Lodge at Mountaineer Square, which is part of the hundreds of millions of dollars of improvements here.

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  • TO PARK CITY UTAH FOR SOME FUN IN THE SNOW
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    TO PARK CITY UTAH FOR SOME FUN IN THE SNOW

    Byuser February 24, 2008July 6, 2021

    Even better, no more soggy hotdogs or lukewarm mac and cheese for lunch and no more putting kids on the chairlift with strangers: the entire class can ride up with their instructor on a six-passenger chairlift and eat together on the mountain. The teens and tweens, of course, will love the parks and pipes and the night skiing this resort is famous for.

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  • SQUEEZING IN SOME ADULT TIME ON VACATION
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    SQUEEZING IN SOME ADULT TIME ON VACATION

    Byuser February 17, 2008July 5, 2021

    Five years is too long between vacations. Just ask Amy and Matt Wilcher. The Ohio couple hasn’t had a vacation since their Caribbean honeymoon five years ago. Now that they’re parents, they’re contemplating an entirely different kind of getaway with their 2-year-old daughter

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  • Park City in the Summer and Winter
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    Park City in the Summer and Winter

    Byuser February 12, 2008July 6, 2021

    The Utah Olympic Park was the venue for Nordic jumping, bobsled, luge and skeleton events during the 2002 Winter Olympics here. Today, world class athletes train here — you may see them if you visit Tuesday through Saturday. They train in summer as well as winter. Today the Park also continues to serve as a year-round competition site.

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  • Park City aerial view
    Snow Vacations | Travel Diaries

    A ski school overview at Park City

    Byuser February 11, 2008July 5, 2021

    Let’s hear it for a place that loves families. “We want to make it easier for them,” says The Canyons Ski School Director Barry Stout. He notes that the “Cat’s “ program for 4-6 year olds not only is one stop shopping but guarantees a 3:1 ratio. There are three terrain parks and six natural half pipes as well as plenty of hike-to terrain for those craving the steeps and the deeps.

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  • TO BARCELONA
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    TO BARCELONA

    Byuser February 10, 2008July 14, 2021

    Welcome to Antonin Gaudi’s unfinished masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia, www.sagradafamilia.org , Barcelona’s most famous site and Spain’s most visited. More than 40 years after the eccentric and revered architect’s death – he was struck by a tram – work still continues on the huge church first begun in 1882. Some 2.5 million people visited last year.

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  • More about Holly Flanders Women’s Ski Clinic
    Snow Vacations | Travel Diaries

    More about Holly Flanders Women’s Ski Clinic

    Byuser February 10, 2008July 5, 2021

    Holly, a single mom of three, was an Olympian and World Cup champion. She skied on the US Ski team for 10 years. She raced from the time she was eight until her late 20s. But she knows that most of the women who sign up for her clinic aren’t world class athletes.

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  • It’s not always easy, but ski camp lifts confidence
    Snow Vacations | Travel Diaries

    It’s not always easy, but ski camp lifts confidence

    Byuser February 9, 2008July 5, 2021

    For me, it’s later in the afternoon at the top of a gnarly, bumpy steep run called Grizzly. I can’t figure out where in the bump to turn. I’m afraid to point my skies downhill. It’s so steep! The bumps are so big! But I square my shoulders and say I’m not going to let the mountain defeat me.

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  • A Women’s Ski Clinic in Utah
    Snow Vacations | Travel Diaries

    A Women’s Ski Clinic in Utah

    Byuser February 6, 2008July 5, 2021

    I’m nervous. The rest of the women in the room are excited and upbeat. We’ve gathered from around the country on this very snowy morning at The Canyons resort in Park City Utah to work on our skiing with former Olympian Holly Flanders and her hand-picked crew of women’s coaches.

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  • A Visit to Park City, Utah
    Destinations | Families & Groups | Food and Dining | Lodging | Snow Vacations | Travel Topics

    A Visit to Park City, Utah

    Byuser February 5, 2008July 14, 2021

    When families told Park City Mountain Resort they didn’t like such big ski school classes for their kids, the resort did something about it — besides suggesting parents pay mega pucks for private lessons.

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