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We worked closely with Jayne Clark from USA Today for several months and last Friday we saw the results of our labors. The ski resort edition of the Affordable America series featured Sun Valley and reached over 6.1 million people between the print and online versions. Approximate media value was $72,800.
The Winter Comedy Series continues with Mike Pace & Heath Harmison. Doors open at 5:30 and the laughs begin at 6:30. $15 at the door or only $10 with a 2010 Season Pass, Discount Pass or Lift Ticket.
Cox Communications Winter Concert Series Continues
Live music in downtown Ketchum continues tonight with the Cox Communications Winter Concert Series, at Town Plaza from 4:00-6:00 p.m. This week’s special guest is local favorite, Piers Lamb.
The events are presented by Cox Communications and sponsored by Pabst Blue Ribbon, Hayden Beverage, Mountain Town Events and the City of Ketchum. LeRoy’s will be open and serving hot chocolate and crepes. Adult beverages will also be available. This event is free and open to the public.
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Sun Valley is going Legit. They have hired Brian Callahan from Breckenridge and Peter Columbo from Mamoth to build a whole entire new program. With the help of Snow Park Technologies it is sure to be a success. Corley Howard,Snow Park Technologies, arrive´s on the 9th of December to help Peter Columbo build the Terrain Park on Dollar Mountain at Sun Valley Resort. It is going to feature a whole new triple line, Hip, and twelve more jibs. It is sure to be a world class terrain park. that only Sun Valley can produce.
The Fun Never Sets in Sun Valley Idaho with the area´s boundless recreational and cultural opportunities. Sun Valley's lifestyle makes it Sun the destination of choice for many different visitors, businesses and people, those who are vibrant, fun-loving, young-at-heart enthusiasts who value a very unique experience.
Bald Mountain´s Big Shoulders
It is eight thirty a.m. on Sun Valley´s Bald Mountain when Will Eilert and I board the Round House Gondola. Capable of carrying eighteen hundred skiers per hour in fifty-six, eight-passenger cabins, the Doppelmayr gondola takes eight minutes to reach the upper station. Though Bald Mountain does not officially open until 9:00, our primary focus is not on the Round House´s First Tracks continental breakfast or the spectacular view of the rising sun, but the chance to link first tracks off Bald Mountain´s 9150- foot summit. First to the Round House means first on the Christmas quad, which rises to first down Easter Bowl. Though he lives and works in Hawaii, Eilert and I have skied together for years. It is little wonder that a foot of fresh powder affects us in similar, obsessive ways. Towering 3400 feet above Ketchum/Sun Valley, "Baldy" is a skier´s mountain. With 2054 acres serviced by 13 lifts this pyramid shaped peak is famous for its unrelenting pitch. Rolling off its broad summit, Warm Springs, Limelight and River Run do not stair step from one flat to the next, but fall precipitously toward Ketchum´s distant snow covered streets. And yet, despite its venerable reputation, Bald Mountain is not an extreme mountain. Adi Erber, a Sun Valley ski instructor, whose clients include Arnold Schwarzenegger and Clint Eastwood, believes "Baldy´s combination of consistent snow, challenging terrain and quad lifts make it the best teaching mountain in the world." If Baldy has a problem, it is this same diversity. On powder mornings, questioning what to ski first can drive you crazy. Should your first run be through Upper River Run´s moguls or Central Park´s cool glades? Should you attack Easter Bowl´s endless vertical, or warm up on Ridge Run´s groomed corduroy? Following a month of long hours and consistent sleep deprivation working as an emergency room surgeon, Eilert refuses to waste time on warm ups. If the choice were left to Will, our first run would be down the Easter Bowl gutter where the fall line is steep, deep and laser straight at the Mayday Triple. Eilert´s plan is simple and effective. Link three hundred turns in knee-deep powder to the Mayday lift then substitute diverse, but similar lines until complete exhaustion sets in. Eat cheese sandwiches and French fries at the Seattle Ridge Restaurant, then repeat until the lifts close at 3:45. Following a short hike along the Bowl ridge, Eilert summons his motto. In the seconds before he drops off the four-foot cornice, he tells himself "Bend your knees, keep your hands in front and look downhill." He will repeat this a dozen times during the day. It clearly works, for he links fifty beautiful turns in the deep, blowing snow before he rolls over a pitch and is lost to sight. Judged by temperature alone, the night´s storm rightly belongs to February or early March. These are Sun Valley´s dependable months, the twin sisters booked by skiers who hope to guarantee deep snow and blue skies. In all truth, mid December is a better time. Colder and quieter, it is Sun Valley´s shoulder season when the mountain is open and the town is empty. Now, two weeks before the shortest day of the year, Easter Bowl is shin- deep and deserted. Though Eilert and I will not claim first tracks on this broad, southeast bowl, we are fourth and fifth, and have our choice of a hundred untouched lines that descend from defining ridge to ridge. Pointing my skis downhill, I touch the snow with my pole, change edges and feel my skis come around. To my right, Eilert matches me turn for turn. His shoulders and hands are square to the hill and his skis float effortlessly through the light powder. While other skiers are content to drift down College, Ridge and Upper Warm Springs?intermediate groomed runs that radiate off the summit, Eilert loves Bald Mountain´s secret back alleys?Fire Trail, Upper River Run, Holiday, Central Park and Lower Bowls. His favorite run doesn´t even have a name. Instead it´s a 2700 vertical foot mix of black diamond bumps, trees and chutes that exits at the Cold Springs Double?Baldy´s oldest, most remote lift. Watching the unbroken snow rise to meet me, I realize that much of my adult life has been defined by Bald Mountain. Without the influence of expert runs that plunge from its broad ridges, I might have spent my life in the pursuit of more worldly, but far less rewarding goals. From the perspective of my three decades in the Wood River Valley, I see that Baldy´s deficits are in fact, assets. Sun Valley´s major storms are born in the Gulf of Alaska. Starting in early December these tightly wound lows lumber down the Pacific West Coast, then turn inland south of Eureka, California. When the meteorological variables beat in sync, an Alaskan low can deliver prodigious snowfalls, toe-numbing cold, and winter´s best skiing. Dropping into Christmas Bowl, Eilert and I explore the Ridge South Slopes to skier´s right of Rock Garden. History records that Averell Harriman used to ride horse back through these alternating dark forests and open meadows. During one of these rides, he not only located the major runs, but also helped site the original Exhibition Lift and the Roundhouse Restaurant. According to William Castagnetto, a Union Pacific engineer, Harriman once paused on Baldy´s then-undeveloped north side and observed, "I´ve skied all over Europe but nothing compares to Bald Mountain." The truth is, sixty years later, expert skiers still consistently award Bald Mountain gold stars for terrain, lifts, snowmaking and grooming. Unlike some resorts where it takes a six-page trail map to separate green diamonds from black, Baldy´s layout is simple. From its rounded summit, four major ridges radiate down to the valley below. The gully runs of Warm Springs, River Run and Christmas Bowl define these ridges, and between the two, a variety of major and minor runs allow skiers access to groomed alleys, massive bumps and glades of Douglas Fir. Exiting the Mayday triple, Eilert and I drop into Farout Bowl. Descending from a long north-south ridge, Baldy´s Bowls not only offer spectacular views of the Pioneer Mountains, but arguably Idaho´s best lift-assisted powder skiing. By eleven a.m. the storm´s last clouds have given way to a low winter sun that casts shadows across the ridges´ hollows and broad open faces that fall two thousand vertical feet to the Mayday and Seattle Ridge chairs. The ten-degree temperature preserves the snow and in succession we ski the trees in Lefty, Sigi´s and Lookout Bowls. If this were February or March, the untracked lines would be skied-out in hours. But in early December, the mountain is empty. With our thighs starting to burn, Will and I ski Fire Trail where the snow has been pushed into the season´s first moguls. Catching the Cold Springs Double back to the Round House, we ski Olympic and the River Run South Slopes. Returning via the Lookout Express Quad to the summit, we descend through Central Park´s glades to Graduate´s perfect fall line, which in turn falls to the Frenchman´s Gully Quad. As the sun arcs across Baldy´s summit, we explore the trees above Warm Springs and the powdery bumps on Upper Hemingway. In December of 2009, Sun Valley has returned to basics. Crowds are down, ski-in lift lines are now the rule rather than the exception and reservations are optional in Ketchum´s restaurants. By 2:45, my altimeter has recorded 40,000 vertical feet. Baldy´s quads will run for another hour but neither Eilert nor I can make another turn, much less take another run. This won´t be the first time, or last, that Bald Mountain will rise to humble us. And standing in front of the Warm Springs Lodge, Eilert studies the gray tendrils advancing from the west. "NOAA is calling for another eight inches tonight," he comments then inquires, "What do you have planned for tomorrow?" With Christmas a couple of weeks away, I know I should work, shovel the decks, shop or decorate the tree. But, I cannot resist the promise of December snow in Sun Valley. "I´ll call you in the morning." I reply. "Say3; 5:30?"
History: When Union Pacific Railroad Chairman Averell Harriman commissioned Austrian Count Felix Schaffgotsch to find a perfect combination of deep snow, big mountains and bright sunshine, Harriman was convinced that a destination ski resort would stimulate rider interest on Union Pacific´s Northern Line. Over the next three months Schaffgotsch rejected Wyoming, Utah and Colorado, before following a last rumor into the Wood River Valley. The Sun Valley Lodge was finished in the late Fall of ?36, just in time to host Hollywood´s biggest stars who were invited for Christmas. If it didn´t snow until early January Union Pacific publicity photos show houses groaning under eight-foot loaves of snow. Deep, cold winters, however, are more the exception than the rule in Central Idaho, but following the lean winters of 1986-91, Sun Valley voted against the vagaries of cyclic El Ninos and vagrant jet streams and invested $15 million in York-computerized snow making. With 454 computer-controlled snowguns, the system is the world´s largest, and virtually guarantees a Thanksgiving opening. If Ketchum/Sun Valley once depended on sheep and mines for its survival, during the past two decades, art galleries, boutiques and real estate offices have filled the blocks around the town´s two stoplights. Weathered brick and wood facades still front Highway 75, and there is a growing realization that growth is no longer a synonym for progress. Today, the Casino Club, Duffy Witmer´s Pioneer Saloon, and the Sun Valley Lodge bear witness to the Wood River Valley´s riotous past. Ernest Hemingway, of course, is still a major draw and a Chamber of Commerce map gives directions to Whiskey Jacques, where he once drank; the Hemingway House which overlooks the Wood River; and even old room number 38 in the renovated Ketchum Korral Motel.
"Growing up in sun valley is like have 50 big brothers and sisters- everyone is pushing each other to have fun. It doesn't matter whether you are mountain biking, kayaking, or skiing- there is no place I would rather live..." - Reggie Crist
"For me, life is mostly about enjoying the outdoors with my family and there's no better playground than Sun Valley." -- Zach Crist
SUN VALLEY ARTS CHAMPION: DENISE SIMONE - Core Artist and Founding Member of Company of Fools
"I arrived in the Valley fourteen years ago wondering how-in-the-world our nonprofit theatre company, Company of Fools, could flourish in a small town. Fourteen years later I wonder how-on-earth it could flourish anywhere else." - Denise Simone BIO * VIDEO *
SUN VALLEY NORDIC CHAMPION MORGAN ARRITOLA - US Ski Team Member, recognized as one the top female cross skiers in North America.
"I love skiing in the Wood River Valley because you can feel so alone in the woods even though you are so close to town. Waking up in the morning and skiing the first tracks is one of my favorite things to do." - Morgan Arritola
SUN VALLEY MOUNTAIN BIKE CHAMPION: REBECCA RUSCH - Three time 24 hour solo world champion and ultra endurance specialist
"The miles of world class single track riding are the reason I live in the Wood River Valley. I have been here riding and training here for 8 years and still have trails that are new and unexplored just outside my back door." -- Rebecca Rusch
SUN VALLEY SKATEBOARD CHAMPION: JEDSON BLUE WATERS - Seven year old 1st place skateboarding competitor
"I have been to a lot of different skateparks and I like the Hailey and Ketchum skateparks the best because3;. they are smooth and they rock!" -- Jed Waters
SUN VALLEY NORDIC CHAMPION: KATE WHITCOMB - American Birkebeiner Champion and Olympic Nordic Hopeful
"Sun Valley is a small community with city possibilities; a year-round playground for big kids. Whether I feel like sneakers, clogs or stilettos, there are options just steps from my door" -- Kate Whitcomb
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Kings abound in Sun Valley Allen & Co. conference attracts high-profile guests By :JON DUVAL
The second day of the Allen & Co. conference in Sun Valley provided confirmed sightings of royalty, including King Abdullah II of Jordan and LeBron James, the National Basketball Association superstar known as "King James."
Other perennial guests to the media, enterainment and technology event that have been spotted on the paths of Sun Valley Resort include Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp., television mogul Barry Diller, and Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Also causing a stir is the arrival of Evan Williams, CEO of Twitter, the social networking site that has gained immense popularity in the past year. Members of the national business media outlets could be heard questioning various guests as to the possibility of the purchase of Twitter.
Others attending the conference include former NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw, billionaire investment guru Warren Buffett and Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. military operations in the Middle East and some other parts of the world.
Backcountry Vacations Create Special Memories
A backcountry ski vacation can create unique memories for you, your friends, and your whole family! Whether you choose to nordic ski or snowshoe on any of the area's trails, lodge at a rustic Mongolian yurt, or plan a once in a lifetime heli ski trip, Sun Valley's got the unique backcountry experience for everyone. Be sure to check out these specials to give your vacation the most value possible:
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Go Deep... in Backcountry Powder
As the birthplace of United States helicopter skiing, Sun Valley has a long tradition of flying visitors to an untouched skier´s paradise on top of the Rockies. Most of the skiing takes place in the 7,000 to 10,000 foot range and there is a variety of terrain and runs to suit every level of skiing ability, including 33-degree pitches, 40-degree chutes, steady 2,000-vertical-foot descents and vast bowls of flawless corn. But don´t get the impression that heli-skiing is only for the super advanced. There are plenty of inviting, low-angled slopes ideally suited for the first-time or family heli-ski experience. And with the new fat ski technology, skiing in deep powder and ungroomed snow is a breeze. For more information visit Sun Valley Heli-Ski Guides.
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Another element of the Ketchum Downtown Master Plan is being implemented by the city of Ketchum as the now city-owned Town Plaza Building, formerly home to Mountain West Bank, is being transformed into a new Sun Valley/Ketchum Visitor Information...
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For Nordic skiing and snowshoeing, the new 58,756 square foot Sun Valley Nordic center debuted this winter. The plush dining facilities there offer ski in/ski out breakfast and lunch. Also, don't forget the popular destination spot of Galena Lodge 20 miles north of the Sun Valley area. Kids ski free on all North Valley Trails, and there are free ranger guided snowshoe tours leaving from Galena Lodge each Thursday through the season.
And if you haven't been to Sun Valley in a few years, the Dollar Mountain area has upgraded significantly! The new Carol's Dollar Mountain Lodge was created with children in mind! European décor and the scrumptious menu attracts skiers and non-skiers of all ages. And new last year, quad lift access was installed on dollar's easiest slope as well as to the top of the mountain.
There's a new run on Baldy, midweek ski packages and a new Sun Valley Nordic Center. The Nordic center has been relocated to the new 58,000-square-foot Sun Valley Club.
This facility features a restaurant, bar (indoors and out), men's and women's lockers, lounges, equipment storage and repair and a rental shop.Ski rentals, ski storage, locker rooms, accessories, wax room, sun decks and restaurant service are available every day. Forty kilometers, or about 25 miles, of groomed and marked trails begin at the Nordic center.
Galvin Flying Services, of Seattle, is expecting to its growing charter fleet air service in Sun Valley beginning in 2009.
"We are adding aircraft to provide increased options for charter service in 2009 as we foresee greater demand due to economic conditions for at least the next year," Galvin Flying Services President Peter Anderson said.
Galvin Flying Services will base the newly acquired Citation Ultra out of Sun Valley with a local crew on call that can be ready for flight within a short period of time. The aircraft seats seven and has a range of 2,200 miles making it a viable charter option to and from most major metropolitan regions in the United States. The existing fleet which now totals seven aircraft includes a wide variety of aircraft from several King Airs, Lear Jets and a Challenger 604.
Founded in 1930, Seattle-based Galvin Flying Services is a nationally recognized independently operated Fixed Base Operation.
Sun Valley is Hollywood's snow town, writes Robert Upe.
Tempers are flaring at Sun Valley. One of the town's finest young men is down with concussion and amid the fracas my plastic cup of Budweiser spills across the floor and over me.
But it's not a fist fight in a bar. It's an ice-hockey game between arch rivals the Sun Valley Suns and Jackson Hole Moose and it's the best entertainment I've had for $US8 ($11.60) in ages.
I'm standing in the front row with my beer balanced on a narrow ledge on a wall separating fans from skaters when a pack of beefy players rams into it and sends the cup flying.
So that's why seasoned locals never perch their drinks here. I realise I have signposted myself as a blow-in.
On the ice, the players take to each other as hockey players do: sticks are pressed into chests and they shove each other with menace to assert regional pride. But I have greater issues in mind and I race off to beat the mob to the beer queue before the hooter sounds to end the period.
This show of aggression is unusual in Sun Valley, an up-market and genteel ski town in the out-of-the-way Sawtooth Mountains of conservative potato-growing American state, Idaho.
Quiet as it is, Sun Valley is where Ernest Hemingway shot himself in 1961. The author of classics, such as For Whom The Bell Tolls and The Old Man And The Sea, lived in Sun Valley and was inspired by its rivers, mountains and forests. But one morning he leant over his double-barrel shotgun and pulled both triggers.
The beauty of the area has not diminished since then. I see snow-covered paddocks and golf courses in the flat lands below the mountains; horses pulling sleighs with bells; neatly stacked wood piles; fast-flowing forest-fringed rivers that lure fly fishermen in summer; grand log-cabin homes; and stone fireplaces with real fires.
Sun Valley is the type of place where you'll see a farmer in a 1960s Chevy pick-up cruise into town for groceries.
"It has a strong sense of community," says professional ski guide Travis Will, a lifelong resident. "If a family is struggling, everyone pitches in to help."
The sense of homeliness and friendliness pervades but I particularly warm to the Catholic church called Our Lady of the Snows, a place of worship that seemingly pays homage to the strong ski history and heritage here.
Sun Valley was "manufactured" in 1936 at the insistence of the chairman of the Union Pacific railway, Averell Harriman. He was a keen skier and he wanted to establish America's first winter destination resort to help increase rail passenger numbers and the real estate wealth of the company's directors.
Harriman wanted an up-market resort, such as Switzerland's St Moritz, so he hired Count Felix Schaffgotsch to scout out a location during the 1935-36 winter. Schaffgotsch dismissed many places that subsequently became successful ski destinations, such as Jackson Hole (too remote and windy), Lake Tahoe (blizzards) and Aspen (too many trees and too far from the rail line).
He was running out of options when he pinpointed the mining town of Ketchum and decided it was the place because it had mountains, plentiful snow, sun and treeless slopes in a sheltered valley.
Work began almost immediately and the Sun Valley Lodge opened in December 1936. Schaffgotsch never got his day in the sun because he returned to Austria soon after and was killed on the Russian Front fighting for the Third Reich.
New York publicist Steve Hannigan, who transformed a sand dune into Miami Beach and then successfully promoted it, was enlisted to do the public relations. He came up with the name Sun Valley and invited Hollywood stars and society notables to visit to give the area the cachet of a luxury resort.
The star-studded line-up of visitors has included Lucille Ball, Ingrid Bergman, Errol Flynn, Bing Crosby, Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, Clint Eastwood, Tom Hanks, Demi Moore and the original Batman, Adam West. Bruce Willis lives nearby, acting for free at the local theatre company and playing in a local band.
The Hollywood push of Sun Valley was helped by the 1941 movie Sun Valley Serenade, a girl-chases-boy flick starring Sonja Henie, John Payne, Milton Berle and the Glenn Miller Orchestra, which included tunes such as Chattanooga Choo Choo. (The film plays on a constant loop on a Sun Valley Lodge channel.)
Sun Valley's rise was ensured with the installation of the first chairlift in the world in 1936. The chair was financed by Harriman and developed by the Union Pacific's engineering department in Omaha, Nebraska.
The lift is long gone but the modern lift system, comprising 19 lifts across two mountains (Bald Mountain is for beginners and Dollar Mountain for competent intermediates or better), works like a wonder. During our stay there are no lift queues and the long, steep, wide, groomed slopes are so deserted that we let our skis run with reckless abandon. There are also tree runs, bumps and steep bowls to tackle.
The slopes at Dollar are of a constant pitch that require a lot of muscle work and technique to check your speed. Legs are well and truly burning by lunch.
On-mountain lunches are a treat, with Sun Valley's day lodges - such as River Run and Seattle Ridge - the best I have seen in the world. Think of big, open fires, soft sofas, quality tables and chairs (no plastic), sophisticated bar areas, widescreen TVs and fresh, affordable food.
The service and food ethic is also evident at the elegant five-star Sun Valley Lodge, which remains the centrepiece of the area and retains a strong sense of Hollywood and ski history. The lodge is a 10-minute bus ride from the slopes. It is an essential experience, from the grand dining rooms to the piano bars to the outdoor glassed-swimming pool.
Many of the rooms have French country interiors and marble bathrooms and there are glorious apartments with fires and plasma TVs. Hemingway is said to have penned much of For Whom The Bell Tolls in room 206. The lodge also has a bowling alley, a spa and massage facility, shops and an adjacent ice rink.
In the early days big bands played at the lodge but now it is a little more laid-back and you're more likely to hear a jazz trio.
Unlike other big North American resorts, Australians are a rarity at Sun Valley. But four-time world surfing champion, Nat Young, is one high-profile Aussie to have bought property here, along with Andrew Fairley, the chairman of the Alpine Resorts Co-ordinating Council in Victoria. Fairley says he fell in love with the resort because of the "six-star" experience.
"There is never a crowd or a lift queue; there is diversity of terrain and the snowmaking is of the highest standard. There are beautiful and affordable lunches in the day lodges, where people are lined up behind the servery in chefs' hats to serve or cook fresh food. It makes you feel good.
"But what really makes Sun Valley compelling is the unconditional welcome. At other resorts in the US there is an A and a B crowd. Visitors are in the B crowd. But in Sun Valley everyone wants to know you and welcome you."
I've wandered into a Sun Valley bookshop to buy For Whom The Bell Tolls and have struck up a conversation with a store attendant who shows this typical friendliness. But then she drops a bombshell. In a town that reveres Hemingway she admits to finding his writing "boring".
I settle for a copy of the local paper, which reports the concussed ice-hockey player, Paul Baranzelli, is probably done for the season.
On a brighter note, the paper describes the last minutes of Sun Valley's 5-4 victory over Moose: "Mike Hanson broke away with the puck. Skating to the right, the left-handed forward slapped a blazing fast slap shot that whizzed by the Moose goalie. The crowd went wild and Hanson took a head-first victory slide into the Suns bench."
By that time I was holding my new beer tightly, just like the locals.
Robert Upe travelled as a guest of Sun Valley and Mogul Ski World.
FAST FACTS
Getting and staying there
Sun Valley Lodge is the accommodation of choice and is usually included in ski packages out of Australia with ski specialists such as Mogul Ski World, Skimax and Travelplan. Mogul Ski World has a package from $4695 a person that includes Qantas return air fares from Melbourne or Sydney to Los Angeles and flights from Los Angeles to Sun Valley, seven nights' twin-share accommodation at Sun Valley Lodge and a six-day lift pass. Phone 1800 335 724, see http://www.mogulski.com.au.
Most accommodation, including Sun Valley Lodges, is at least a few kilometres from the slopes but a free bus service provides easy access to the snow.
Skiing there
Sun Valley's ski area comprises Dollar Mountain (mainly beginners) and Bald Mountain. Several kilometres separate the the two sites. Bald Mountain's terrain is steep but there is little or no true extreme terrain. The 150-day season usually includes 120 sunny days. There are 75 runs across 2054 hectares. Heli-skiing is available; see http://www.sunvalleyheliski.com. There are excellent cross-country trails.
Eating there
Two essentials are the Round House on the ski slopes of Bald Mountain for lunch and the Pioneer Saloon (www.pioneersaloon.com) in Ketchum for dinner. The Round House was built in 1939 and has Swiss-Austrian influence, a four-sided stone fireplace and accordion player in Austrian outfit but American accent. The Pioneer Saloon is a bustling place with superb T-bones. Also consider Trail Creek Cabin, built in 1937 to take guests to dinner by sleigh and still doing it today.
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Galvin Flying Services, of Seattle, is expecting to its growing charter fleet air service in Sun Valley beginning in 2009.