Oregon's alternative ski zone is Mount Hood, three hours to the north towards Portland, the state's major city.
Less than an hour from the airport is Austria's biggest ski zone, comprising the slopes of a group of villages in the Salzach Valley.
Most of the alpine commons are designated and used as ski-zones.
When skiing in Alaska, even the parking lot might be considered an extreme skiing zone.
Kids can also enjoy a ski adventure zone called Black Bear Hollow, with meandering ski trails and wood carvings of animals.
Amid the intricate network of pistes, is a ski-free zone.
Mr. Greene cited easy-access backcountry zones beside ski areas, like the East Vail Chutes and Bear Creek off Telluride — places where lots of people ski and ride and, if history serves as a guide, a few people die.
pugetensis, has established breeding populations in urban habitats and has also expanded its range to human-disturbed habitat in clear cuts of mountain forests and in ski areas in alpine zones of the Cascade Mountains of Washington State.
We went one at a time down the chute proper, watching from safe zones, then skiing 20 or more turns to another stance.
They now have big hotels, fast ski-lifts, Wi-Fi zones and flashy nightclubs, and attract guests from all over Europe, but for most of their history these villages were impoverished, isolated places whose people were suspicious of outsiders, particularly those in the next valley.
Only the bar of the "hip" Hotel Madlein is a no-ski-boot quiet zone.
