Massachusetts resort is a trip back to the Gilded Age - montrealgazette.com
27 May 2012, 10:28 pm
When is a cottage not a cottage? When it's a majestic mansion in the patrician town of Lenox in the Berkshire mountains of Massachusetts. This New England enclave was settled during the late 1800s, the booming industrial period that Mark Twain labelled the ...

Ski season to start early as snow dumps on mountains - Sydney Morning Herald
27 May 2012, 10:28 pm
The official start of the Australian snow season is still 12 days away on the Queen's birthday long weekend on June 9, however Perisher in NSW has announced it will open a week early on June 2 and Thredbo is aiming for June 6. Victoria's  Mount Buller is ...

Other homegrown elite athletes from Victoria - The Vancouver Sun
27 May 2012, 9:10 pm
But with year-round temperate weather and plenty of mountains and lakes, Victoria has produced a number of elite athletes in a eclectic group of sports. ■ Steve Nash (Basketball): In high school, Nash was also a star soccer and rugby player. But sticking ...

Winner of race through Idaho mountains: ‘I didn’t anticipate it would be that steep’ - The Spokesman-Review
27 May 2012, 8:27 pm
German road race champ Ina Yoko Teutenberg won today's third stage in the Exergy Tour, a 57.8-mile women's cycling road race from Crouch to Idaho City with 4,520 feet of climbing through the mountains. “I didn’t anticipate it would be that ...

Boyd ready to "move mountains" for US national team - mlssoccer.com
25 May 2012, 2:45 pm
ORLANDO, Fla. – He’s the only member of the current US national team camp who doesn’t even play with the first team at his club. Yet Terrence Boyd has made the cut. The 21-year-old Borussia Dortmund II striker was named on Friday to Jurgen ...

White mountains Announces Additional Share Repurchase Authorisation - Yahoo Finance
25 May 2012, 6:53 am
HAMILTON, Bermuda, May 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- White mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. (WTM) announced today that its Board of Directors authorised the Company to repurchase up to an additional 1,000,000 common shares, from time to time, subject ...

Visit to Varner: Superb Santa Cruz mountains Chardonnays - Huffington Post
23 May 2012, 9:36 pm
Santa Cruz mountains produces some excellent, minerally, ageworthy Chardonnay with vibrant acidity. I've previously written here about the long lived, complex Chardonnays of Mount Eden, and about the great Chards from Rhys and Ridge. The other Chardonnays ...

Rugged mountains yield hundreds of WWII-era plane crashes of lost "Hump Airmen" - FOX News
23 May 2012, 6:58 pm
Nothing James Browne learned in flight school prepared him for “The Hump,” a perilous, Himalayan no-man’s land that became a graveyard for hundreds of fearless WWII-era fliers who battled Japanese fighters, impossible weather and a supply ...

Giro d'Italia Stage 17: Many mountains and a downhill finish - Podium Cafe
22 May 2012, 1:37 pm
The Giro d'Italia heads into the high mountains and hurtles toward its decisive finale. Wednesday's stage 17 runs from Falzes/Pfalzen to Cortina d'Ampezzo.It is a hilly affair with a twisting, fast, technical descent to the finish in Cortina.

Walking in Albania's 'Accursed mountains' - The Guardian
18 May 2012, 2:54 pm
Like many minor roads in Albania, the route from the northern city of Shkodër to the nearby mountains is not tarmacked, and as our van bumps along, it contributes to the clouds of white dust that settle on everything in sight. We pass countless ...