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How the rich take luxury ski trips, according mountain resort insiders
Comment on this story Comment The distance from Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport to the Yellowstone Club, where billionaires ski and golf across 15,200 exclusive acres, is about 50 miles. For most people, that’s an hour’s drive through a windy Montana canyon. But if you’re a member — along with Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Mark Zuckerberg — it can be a much quicker jaunt. Instead of getting to Bozeman on a commercial flight and grabbing an Uber at the airport, they arrive by jet and hop on a helicopter “so that it’s only a 10-minute ride to the club instead,” said Adamo Vullo, a former Yellowstone Club employee turned caretaking…
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Parent Review: Family friendly trip to Schweitzer Resort
.Off-season visits to ski destinations like Schweitzer Resort have become a favorite vacation for my non-skiing family. It’s hard to top the allure of mountain views glimpsed from a chairlift and the built-in amenities resort towns can offer. High a top a mountain, the hotel offered an amazing space and spectacular views Embarking on a road trip to Schweitzer, Sand Point Idaho This year, I decided to explore a new-to-us ski resort and put my kids’ increasing endurance of long car rides to the ultimate test. We embarked on a solo-parent road trip, driving over six hours to Schweitzer Resort’s Humbird Hotel. Nestled in the Selkirk Mountains just above Sandpoint,…