It links to the huge skiing terrain of Paradiski.
Snowcat skiing - using snowcats to transport powder skiers and snowboarders to the top of untracked descents - has really taken off over the past decade in Canada, with its huge, empty terrain and abundant snowfall.
Stevens had been a US Air Force pilot during the second world war, flying missions in China, but once told the Washington Post: "Plane crashes are the occupational hazard of Alaska politics". So many Alaskans rely on flying in small planes to get around the huge, rugged terrain that crashes, such as the one that killed Stevens, are all too common.
One-way advance ticket from around £50 (www.nsb.no) Mollymaine Walking in the Nordmarka, Oslo Above Oslo is a vast, forested terrain with a huge number of walking and cross-country ski trails.
From the gyre that is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to the flower-growers of Kenya to the Rothamsted Research Archive in Britain, a repository for more than 300,000 soil samples, Mr. Weisman covers a huge amount of terrain.
The other reason is its sheer size: Those who do make the journey soon disperse over three mountains and nearly 4,000 skiable acres, with a correspondingly huge menu of terrain.
The ski area offers a huge variety of terrain, from the untracked bowls of Jupiter Peak to the wide-open groomed runs off the King Con lift, cementing Park City's rep as a family-friendly resort with something for everything.
It's a huge expanse of terrain -- the scene of long-ago forest fire -- where there are no traditional runs; you're free to wander about as you please, knowing that if you don't duck under a boundary rope, every drainage will lead you back to the lift.
Its detractors complain that it's a bit low, and lacks really steep technical skiing, but it's so vast that there's a huge variety of terrain, and the villages and mountain restaurants have far more character than in many other big French ski areas.
