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[This web page requires a browser capable of displaying frames. Your Internet Browser does not support frames or is currently configured not to display frames. Please upgrade your Browser.] SUN VALLEY <p> BE THERE NOW </p> <p>Hotels in Sun Valley <br> • The Elkhorn Resort Sun Valley from $159.00 USD <br> More Hotels in Sun Valley >> </p> <p> READ IT HERE </p> <p>Although these days Sun Valley is the common label for the entire Wood River Valley area - in the center of southern Idaho, 150 miles west of Idaho Falls and east of Boise - technically it is just the name of a ski resort . This was the 1930s brainchild of Union Pacific Railroad chairman Averell Harriman, who, on discovering his railroad was obliged to maintain a passenger service, decided an alpine ski center would be an ideal stimulus to tourism. His scout, Austrian ski champion Count Schaffgotsch, set out to find dry powder snow on open treeless slopes, sheltered by higher mountains and not at too strenuous an elevation. Having turned down Aspen for being too high, he decided Dollar and Bald mountains fitted the bill, here in the relatively gentle foothills of the Sawtooths near the old sheep-ranching village of KETCHUM . The Sun Valley name was chosen because the snow remained even in the brightest winter sun; early brochures showed skiers stripped to the waist. The world's first chairlift was built here in 1936, and the resort was an instant success. </p> <br> <br> <br>
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My Travel Cafe an independent website offering hotels, car rental, airfare and cruises. For reservations call 800-780-5733 and please refer to discount code 205002 in order to ensure the lowest possible discount rate. Click for more discount hotels Curtis Bannister's Cat Island Oceanfront Villas
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For reservations call 800-780-5733 and please refer to discount code 205002 in order to ensure the lowest possible discount rate.
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Curtis Bannister's Cat Island Oceanfront Villas
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