"I think going with Alpine is good strategy," says John Marren, managing director at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter's Menlo Park office.
Another day, we went looking for alpine swimming holes.
At Cascadia, we went for the specialties: Alpine martinis and $1 mini-burgers.
4. Went through Marfa and Alpine last summer--most of the galleries were closed, looked like a ghost town.
In the first week of the 1998 Nagano Olympics, neither the downhill nor any other Alpine event went off as scheduled.
Two Australians, four Britons and a local pilot are reported to have perished when the Eurocopter Squirrel helicopter, operated by Alpine Adventures, went down at around 11am (local time) on Saturday in an area on Fox Glacier described as "heavily crevassed" in the south of the country.
The reduction of agricultural use of alpine ecosystems went hand in hand with an increase of soil erosion in many areas.
As well as chasing the biggest winter sports names for interviews, I went to enjoy some alpine sport during the last Southern Hemisphere winter.
I have signed up to take part in the Haute Route, cycle events going across the Alpine terrains of Italy, Switzerland, France and Spain.
"If you live in an area where the child needs a boot nearly every day all winter, I might be tempted to go for the Alpine," she said.
