Skippress - Index

Skippress - US Vol. 7 No. 2 - Index

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Classic
THE BEST SKI VACATIONS IN THE WORLD
New Sheridan Hotel,
Telluride, Colorado
Don’t take the ‘new’ too literally in Telluride’s New
Sheridan Hotel. It’s been around since 1895. It was
part of the Gold Rush. In 1896, William Jennings
Bryan delivered his Cross of Gold speech right
outside the front door.
Why stay here? It’s in the heart of Telluride. (Some
would say it is the heart of Telluride.) It’s got its
original bar, the oldest in town. The Chop House
serves super-fresh seafood from non-threatened
species and organic, hormone-free chicken. The
rooms are done up in Victorian Elegant. Breakfast
is free. So are freshly baked chocolate chip cookies.
And the hottub.
newsheridan.com, 1 800 200-1891 — Jules Older
Photo: Courtesy of New Sheridan Hotel
Hotel St. Bernard, Taos, New Mexico
Jean Meyer believes there’s only one way to experience Taos… his way.
If you want to stay at his hotel — and trust me, you do — that’s the
experience you’ll learn to love.
The St. Bernard only books guests for full ski weeks, Sunday to Saturday.
Jean’s regimen is ski school in the morning — he’s been the school’s
technical director forever — and freeskiing in the afternoon. Of course,
that’s after a break for lunch, which, like all your meals, is included, delicious
and taken family-style with the hotel’s other guests. Lifts, lessons,
meals slopeside. Take it or leave it. Take it!
stbernardtaos.com (505) 776-2251 — GDM
Photos: Courtesy of Ski Press
The Hotel Portillo, Portillo, Chile
The long, classic curve of the Hotel Portillo, with its weathered wooden rails and
deep blue pool, sits high and remote in the Andes, South America’s ski
Shangri-La.
Handsome men in waistcoats still operate the elevators, which you’re as likely to
share with big-mountain skiers such as Chris Davenport or legendary racers like
Hermann Maier as you are to bump into an old ski buddy whom you haven’t seen
for 15 years.
There’s a giant wooden gymnasium in the basement, and they call you for dinner,
where they serve ostrich steak and bottles of cool red wine. In the morning, the
steep, bare peaks beckon, reaching like gloved fi ngers into the endless sky.
skiportillo.com, 1 800 829-5325 — PK
Photo: Courtesy of Hotel St. Bernard