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Ultra hiking Mt. Charleston saw various climate changes

I've had my sights on Mt. Charleston since my initial visit to Las Vegas 11 years ago. Rising a whopping 10,000 feet from the Strip, Mt. Charleston is the most topographically prominent - prominence is a mountain's height measured from near its base rather than from sea level - peak in Nevada, and is the eighth-most prominent peak in the contiguous United States. Forking off the ravine, the route heads up a steep chute that is usually filled with brush and scree by early summer. But due to the severe winter experienced in southern Nevada, the chute still had about six feet of consolidated, icy and quite slippery snow. One slip-up here and it would be a long and fast slide down to the bottom - crampons or an ice axe would have come in handy. But I was confident if I took the time to kick in solid foot-holds and dig in with my ski poles, I'd be fine. I was within a half mile and 300 vertical feet of the top and had to turn back. Despite my frustration, it was actually an easy decision to make. The ability to gauge what you can and can't do safely is the key to surviving long solo adventures, and my gut told me there was no guarantee I could cross the slick snow without a fatal slip. There were no other options and within a few seconds - and after a few choice words - I was heading back the way I came.

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Diamond Resorts International® Appoints Hospitality Veteran To Senior Vice President, Resort Operations

DRI Continues Company Commitment to Branded Hospitality Service with Addition of Shawn Ericson, CHA, PCAM, RRP, to Oversee North American Resort Operations

Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) January 31, 2009

Diamond Resorts International® (DRI), a global leader in the vacation ownership industry, has hired Shawn Ericson, CHA, PCAM, RRP, as Senior Vice President, Resort Operations, to oversee DRI's North American resort portfolio. Ericson will be instrumental in spearheading DRI's resort operations and its relationships between hospitality management and all of the various home owners associations throughout the continental U. S. and Hawaii, and the Caribbean.

"In our ongoing efforts to build the most recognized leadership team in the vacation ownership and hospitality industries, it is professionals like Shawn Ericson who will help position DRI as a major global hospitality brand," says Simon Crawford-Welch, Ph. D., RRP, President and Chief Operating Officer. "Shawn will help Diamond Resorts International® provide the highest levels of guest service in all of our resort operations with a continued emphasis on our brand tenets of simplicity, choice and comfort."

Ericson brings nearly 28 years of operational management experience with major hotel brands including Marriott, Hilton, Ramada and Radisson. He spent nine years with Resort Condominiums International (RCI) in several management positions including Vice President of RCI's Preferred Client Group. For the past ten years, Ericson has been an integral member of Bluegreen Corporation's executive staff where he held the role of Senior Vice President for resort management. "Shawn's experience, organizational discipline and successful relationship management will greatly benefit our company as a whole," says Crawford-Welch. "From corporate oversight to on-site resort management, his role will be instrumental in bringing our objectives and goals for seamless branded hospitality service delivery to fruition."

Committed to providing owners, members and guests with the simplicity, choice and comfort they deserve, DRI has poised itself as a competitive worldwide hospitality brand. Key strategic components that continue to position DRI as a leader in the vacation ownership and hospitality industries include an open communications platform and transparent organizational structure, centralized and consolidated efficiencies, the ongoing interaction of an Owner Advisory Board and a hands-on executive management approach where leadership is empowered to ensure the delivery of branded hospitality service.

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