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5 Dog Sledding Trips For Adventurous, Animal-Loving Families

5 Dog Sledding Trips For Adventurous, Animal-Loving Families

Dog sledding is an ancient art, first developed by indigenous people in North America and the Arctic as a way to travel and survive in brutal winter conditions. Jack London’s tales of the Alaskan frontier put the mushers, and more so the dogs, in the forefront of the American imagination. And The Last Frontier’s famed Iditarod, that epic mid-winter trek from Anchorage to Nome, continues the tradition of Alaskan dog sled racing and pits humans and dogs against other teams and the whims of nature.

But dog sledding does not have t ... Read more

This New Mountain Resort in Colorado Has 31 A-frame Cabins a

Winter Park, Colorado, will welcome an all-new accommodation in January 2023. And it’s about as old-school as they come.

Denver-based Zeppelin Development is opening the A-Frame Club, a set of 31 A-frame cabins and an ori ... Read more

Christopher Kelley: Government reporter and more

I grew up in Connecticut, where from early childhood I enjoyed drawing and “writing” little nonsensical storybooks. In my adolescence I loved making my own magazines, creating caricatures of my friends and satirizing our middle school days in my ... Read more

Epic, Ikon, or Independent: How to Find the Best Multi-Resor

Does anyone buy lift tickets for individual resorts anymore? With the popularity of multi-resort passes, it’s easy to think not. Although not every mountain has joined the frenzy, and ski town locals usually purchase some type of season pass to the ... Read more

The best and biggest concerts playing metro Phoenix in January 2023

Two of Motown's most iconic artists — the Temptations and the man who wrote their first chart-topping entry on the Hot 100, Smokey Robinson — will swing through metro Phoenix in a month whose other highlights range from Jazz Is Dead doing Grateful Dead covers to Carin Leon fresh from winning Best Regional Mexican Song at the Latin Grammys.

Our guide to January concerts also features shows by R&B star Ari Lennox, alternative hip-hop great Open Mike Eagle, jazz legend Terence Blanchard, an art-punk group whose name we can't revea ... Read more

Legacy of mining in Colorado: Discovery of the first lode

John H. Gregory was an experienced miner who had learned how to prospect for gold in 1827 in Georgia. He had lost all his money in the Panic of 1857. So, in 1858 he left his wife and kids in Georgia for the Fraser River gold fields in British Columbi ... Read more

Music of the Mountains: Eric Stone

Eric Richard Stone says he comes from a classically trained musical family. Many members of his extended family were original faculty members of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and even started the Bay Chamber Concert Series. Stone hims ... Read more

The coziest cabin rentals for a dream winter getaway

If your image of a perfect snow day involves being holed up inside a cabin, well, let’s just say the team at Vrbo hears you. The home rental platform has just rounded up some of its prettiest, coziest cabins — chalets if we’re being honest — ... Read more