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Celebrate the end of ski season in Alaska and the perfect combination of sun, snow and water. The Slush Cup is an annual Alaskan event held during the Spring Carnival at Alyeska Resort in Girdwood, Alaska (about 30 miles south of Anchorage). The contestants, most of them in costumes ski down one of the runs and try to ski over a 90 foot pool of freezing water.
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The Smuggler Mine is located on the slopes of Smuggler Mountain, on the north edge of Aspen, Colorado, United States. It is the oldest operating silver mine in the Aspen mining district, and one of the few still operating from Aspen's early boom years. In 1987 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The largest silver nugget ever mined, weighing 184...
Snake charming is the practice of pretending to hypnotise a snake by playing an instrument called pungi. A typical performance may also include handling the snakes or performing other seemingly dangerous acts, as well as other street performance staples, like juggling and sleight of hand. The practice is most common in India, though other Asian nations such as Pakista...
You can “Be a sniper for a day” and engage a variety of reactive steel targets with .22 and .7.62 rifles. Some of the targets are identical to those used in military and police sniper training around the world!
Snowbombing is a popular week-long winter sports and music festival held annually in the spring at the Austrian ski resort of Mayrhofen.
The event has been run since 2000 when it was first held at the French resort of Risoul as an après-ski nightclub promotional exercise started by English promoters from Manchester called Outgoing Ltd. However, since 2005, the ...
Snow Dome is a mountain located on the Continental Divide in the Columbia Icefield, where the boundary of Banff National Park and Jasper National Park meets the border of Alberta and British Columbia in Canada.
The mountain was named in 1898 by J. Norman Collie because its snow-capped massif resembles a dome.
The mountain, reaching a height of 3,456 m (11,339 ft), is ...
Snow in the Desert? Yes, it can snow in Joshua Tree National Monument. And when it does it becomes a magical place to explore.
One place to see snow is Keys View, a popular vista point sitting at about 5,000 feet elevation.
The Soap Box Derby is a youth soapbox car racing program which has been run in the United States since 1934. World Championship finals are held each July at Derby Downs in Akron, Ohio. Cars competing in this and related events are unpowered, relying completely upon gravity to move.
Using standardized wheels with precision ball bearings, modern gravity-powered racers s...
A Sommerrodelbahn is a form of dry toboggan run. Located on the side of a steep hill, it may consist of a track or rail upon which cars or carriages run downhill at high speed or simply a concave concrete trough down which participants slide on plastic 'toboggans'.
An example of a Sommerrodelbahn may be seen in the Austrian village of Pettneu. It is 550 metres (601 y...
Songkran is the Thai New Year's national holiday. Songkran is 13 April every year, but the holiday period extends from 14 to 15 April. In 2018 the Thai cabinet extended the festival nationwide to five days, 12–16 April, to enable citizens to travel home for the holiday. In 2019, the holiday will be observed 12–16 April as 13 April falls on a Saturday. The ...
The Downtown Hotel is an establishment at Second Avenue and Queen Street in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. It contains 59 rooms.
The hotel has gained notoriety for its Sourtoe cocktail. The Sourtoe cocktail began during prohibition with a case of frostbite. In the 1920s, two outlaw brothers, Louie and Otto, were caught in a blizzard. Louie soaked his foot, and when the b...
The Spanish Riding School of Vienna, Austria, is a traditional riding school for Lipizzan horses, which perform in the Winter Riding School in the Hofburg. Not only is it a center for classical dressage, the headquarters is a tourist attraction in Vienna that offers public performances as well as permitting public viewing of some training sessions. The presentati...
Spiral Jetty is an earthwork sculpture constructed in April, 1970 that is considered to be the central work of American sculptor Robert Smithson. Smithson documented the construction of the sculpture in a 32-minute color film also titled Spiral Jetty.
Built on the northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake near Rozel Point in Utah entirely of mud, salt crystals, basalt...
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