Yet when it comes to slope-side dining, there is clearly room for improvement.
Middleton notes that December 2007 will see the opening of 60 ski-in, ski-out suites at the base of Big Sky, units expressly designed for slope-side entertaining.
The quadrennial TV spectacle boosts awareness of the sport, which eventually translates into dollars for the firms that sell ski equipment and lift tickets and slope-side condominiums.
On either side of the road, up the green slope and down on the lake side, turnouts and driveways for lovely inns, kooky ersatz Austrian mini-villages, hip coffee houses and eccentric galleries appear invitingly like pictures in a pop-up book.
It is understood the group were descending from a peak on the south side of the valley, when the slope they were on broke away.
The fuel on board the rig is used to power equipment and is not the result of the drilling operations Shell conducted off the North Slope, on the opposite side of the vast state from where the Kulluk now rests.
The French are even farther down the slippery slope to fines than their friends on the other side of the Rhine.
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The sediment grains bouncing along the bed get pushed up the rearward-facing slope (stoss) and then avalanche down the other side (lee).
Another Thai survivor stuck on the "critical side" of the volcano awaits rescue, he said, because the steep slope and high elevation prevents a helicopter landing.
In the dark, under a starry sky and a waning moon, Todd and I drove up the side of Kimball Mountain, one of the last large peaks on the westernmost slope of the Rockies.
Another Thai survivor stuck on the "critical side" of the volcano was awaiting rescue, he said, because the steep slope and high elevation prevents a helicopter landing.
We took a tester Rover through the nastiest muck, up snowy mountainsides and down the other side, through streams and headfirst into 4 feet of standing water down a 45-degree mud slope.
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