One such resort is the Tamarack Resort in Idaho. Developed by Andre Agassi and Stefanie Graf, through their company Agassi Graf Development, Echo Partners and Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, Fairmont Tamarack all-seasons village resort will be located in the heart of Idaho's Payette River Mountains.

The resort's mountain terrain includes a 2,800-ft vertical drop, complete with seven lifts and 41 runs spreading across 1,100 liftaccessed acres. The average snowfall at Tamarack is 300 inches and, catering to both skiers and snowboarders, the resort offers areas for freeriders such as the Hells Canyon SuperPipe, an Olympic calibre snowboarders dream at 22-feet high and 450-feet long with an angle of 16 degrees.

But you don't have to be an expert skier to enjoy Idaho's mountains as the resort also offers a range of slopes from beginners, with the majority of the 41 runs – the longest four miles long – being in the intermediate level. "Tamarack Resort offers perfect skiing for the family with plenty of space and different runs for skiers and snowboarders," says Andre Agassi, Director of Agassi Graf Development. "Stefanie and I spent most weekends here last season with the kids. It is a fantastic resort which is gaining a great reputation for excellent skiing and snowboarding and being recognised as one of America's finest."

Fairmont Tamarack hotel offers 300 studio, one-, two- and threebedroom apartments and penthouses for private sale complete with five-star hotel and concierge services, and lifestyle facilities including 24-hour concierge, private indoor/outdoor pool, 17,000 square foot Willow Stream health spa, two restaurants and a business centre. And the potential for rental income doesn't stop with the end of the winter ski season. Robert Trent Jones Jr's 18-hole signature golf course, awarded America's Best New Public Course and one of the region's Best New Courses in 2006 and 2007 is a popular summer sport destination and brings many golfers to the Payette River Mountains. "The natural terrain of the land used for this Idaho Golf Resort course provided us a perfect design palette," says Robert Trent Jones Jr. "The dramatic changes in landscape and majestic views of the mountains, the meadow and lake cascade, qualify Osprey Meadows as one of the finest courses in the Pacific Northwest."

Other summer leisure activities to be enjoyed in the area include fishing in the trout-filled alpine lakes, biking and hiking along the many trails decorating meadow and mountain slopes and water-based activities at the 21-mile-long Lake Cascade.

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Article published 29 April 2008