(At Bear Creek, the initiation fee for a couple is $13,500, and annual dues of $1,350 cover a winter's worth of skiing).
Some resort areas cite studies showing that a family of four on a winter ski trip spends an average of $10,000 during a week's stay, but that summer visitors — mountain bikers, rafters, hikers — average just a few hundred dollars a day.
A confidential membership invitation from the Republican association follows the same pattern, with a winter ski weekend in place of the Derby.
In the winter, after a day of skiing and snowboarding up at Tamarack, we'll all come back and we'll light the wood stove.
It sold its women's magazine division to Gruner & Jahr in 1994 and a group of skiing, sailing and tennis magazines to Miller Publishing in 1997.
It enjoys an oft-quoted 300 days of sunshine a year, and offers access to more than 300 miles of mountain-biking trails, 71 parks, a thousand climbing routes and 3,600 acres of skiing and snowboarding terrain on Mount Bachelor.
The stitching of the buttery leather interior is evocative, however, of the diamond quilt pattern of a 1970s polyester ski parka.
The dark paneled interior of the handsome white colonial has the feel of a 1960's ski lodge, but white table linens dress it up a bit.
There are more than 200 trails, 6 peaks, 33 lifts and more than 1,200 acres of skiing and riding.
A telling 2009 survey of ski patrollers from across the country found that 77 percent did not wear helmets because they worried that the headgear could reduce their peripheral vision, hearing and response times, making them slower and clumsier.
