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Sun Valley,
Idaho

 

Jan. 25 -Feb. 1, 2003


America’s shining beacon of
European elegance,
incomparable beauty,
impeccable service.
No other place is quite like
Sun Valley.


    INCLUDES

    • 5-of-6 days lift ticket
    • 2 days guides
    • 7 nights at The Inn or The Lodge
    • Kickoff breakfast
    • Prime Time Two welcome reception
    • 5 dinners

PRICE


 
Inn
Lodge
60+
$1121
$1316
Under 60
$1211
$1406
Single Supplement
$369
$532

DEPOSIT

$300

LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY

Dollar Mountain is the area for beginners and less adventuresome skiers. Baldy is for intermediate and expert skiers—its green runs are more challenging than most ski areas.

 

Lodging Altitude 6,000 ft
Top of ski area 9,150 ft
Airports:
Boise (bus,154 mi.), Hailey (least reliable arrivals, luggage often left behind, 12 mi.)
What’s your all-time favorite ski resort? Pose that question to any skier who’s been around for a while and you’ll likely hear: “Sun Valley!” What is it about this place that creates such stunning, indelible memories?

The sun shines a lot at Sun Valley, and because Ketchum is hard to get to, Sun Valley radiates a feeling of serenity and casual elegance. This is even more obvious when you arrive at the resort itself, the Queen of American ski destinations since it opened in 1936. The elegant restaurants, the dancing, the ice skating, and the well appointed rooms all underscore why the resort is so popular.

Then there’s the skiing. “The mountain spoils you,” one well-traveled OTHGI skier contends, “with its gorgeous base lodges, best service anywhere, the best on-mountain food, and bowls that outdo Vail’s.” Here they make snow as well or better than any mountain in the world, and they take excellent care of what they have. There’s an unhurried, uncrowded feel about the place, enhanced by the fact you rarely wait for lifts, nor wait in long lines to be served in the mountain cafés.

Dollar Mountain may be the ideal place for novices to be tutored by Sun Valley’s famous instructors, but Mt. Baldy is the star. It’s a skier’s mountain, with 3,600 vertical feet of “perfect pitch” to suit any shaped-skier’s fantasies. It’s this simple: If you have never skied Baldy at speed, banking off the sides of runs that follow the natural drainages like Canyon and Warm Springs, you have never really skied. So come make memories of your own, and see why there truly is no other place like Sun Valley.