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250 GALLONS, 7,000 FEET Appropriately located at the bottom of Quittin’ Time ski run in Old Town Park City, Utah, you’ll find the world’s first and only ski-in distillery.
igh West Distillery and Saloon has been making small-batch rye whiskey at this 7,000-foot elevation since 2007. Housed in a pair of hundred-yearold buildings with a bar made of wood reclaimed from a 1904 bridge, High West takes its mining-town history seriously. But this is no novelty shop – the distillery was named 2011 Whiskey Pioneer of the Year by Whiskey Advocate magazine. Whether it’s quittin’ time or just time to refuel, drop your skis on the rack and sidle up to bar to enjoy Utah’s widest selection of whiskies, or head for the Zagat-rated dining room voted best restaurant in Park City. Distillery tours (including samples) show off the 250-gallon copper pot still three times per day. highwest.com – C. Newberry
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A 110-foot ramp will transform Fenway Park into a freeski and snowboard showcase Now that big air snowboarding is an official Olympic sport (debuting in PyeongChang, Korea, in 2018), all eyes are on the ramp. This February, that ramp goes urban at Boston’s Fenway Park in what U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association CMO Michael Jaquet told Sports Business Daily will be “the biggest and best big air competition in the history of the sport.” The 110-foot ramp will transform the baseball field into a freeski and snowboard showcase, filling the space between centre field and home plate and giving spectators a close-up view of the athletes as they launch into their aerial tricks. With nearly double the usual prize purse, expect a prime roster of top-shelf athletes when the competition, a U.S. Grand Prix tour stop, arrives in Boston February 11 to 12, 2016. – C. Newberry
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