Denizens of that venerable cowboy mountain resort take homemade craft of cardboard -- kept together by glue, string, duct tape and paint -- and use them as a vehicle for pitching themselves down a steep base-lodge slope.
All had worn the crimson robes of the Kirti Monastery, a venerable institution of learning ringed by mountains on the eastern edge of the Tibetan plateau.
A good bet for your first night's dinner is Spencer's at the Mountain, above, tucked inside the venerable Palm Springs Tennis Club (701 West Baristo Road, 760-327-3446 760-327-3446 760-327-3446
At the Parque Nacional, Bogota's most venerable park, on the edge of the mountains that ring this city, fans gathered on Thursday night for the match against Honduras on a 20-by-20-foot 20-by-20-foot 20-by-20-foot 20-by-20-footcity screenple coned watch oftseveral
In summer the area is awash in festivals, from Dr. Ralph Stanley's Memorial Day bluegrass festival in the mountains of Coeburn, Va., to the venerable Old Fiddlers Convention held every August in Galax.
Amid otherworldly harmonies, sobbing fiddles and freight-train banjos are soul-rending tales of that glory-bound train, the old rugged cross and Satan's choir sung by newer bands like Mountain Heart and Blue Highway, but also by venerable bluegrass reliables like Bill Monroe and the Stanley Brothers.
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Eagle Mountain House (179 Carter Notch Road, Jackson; 800-966-5779; www.eaglemt.com) is a venerable hotel 15 minutes away.
(Midgette) MUSIC MOUNTAIN (Tonight and Sunday) Offering a smattering of choral music and jazz, but focusing on string quartets, this venerable festival has a quartet called the Amernet on Sunday playing Haydn and Brahms, then joining forces with the pianist Alpin Hong for works by Schubert, Granados and Wagner (a version of the "Siegfried Idyll").
(Midgette) MUSIC MOUNTAIN (Tonight through Sunday) Offering a smattering of choral music and jazz but focusing on string quartets, this venerable festival presents the Bergonzi String Quartet this weekend playing an eclectic program that ranges from Debussy's Quartet and Franck's Piano Quintet (with Melvin Chen) to Joplin and Hefty's "Li'l Darlin'".
