Article: Travel: Winter Sports - Welcome to the middle of nowhere Whitefish, Montana - it's a helluva town. No, honestly. It's where all the big fish in America come to ski, up Big Mountain

On the drive down into Montana from its northern border, it is not immediately clear what has attracted a whole posse of high-profile pioneers - led by Ted Turner and Jane Fonda, David Letterman, and the legendary quarterback John Ellway - to set up homes in the state. The landscape is big and tough, but no more remarkable than in other parts of the Wild West. And the businesses which line the roadside on the journey along the Flathead Valley to Whitefish seem oddly ill- fitted to the needs of the new-age rancher. It is easy enough to get a muffler fixed, buy liquor, or eat breakfast at any time of day; but in 50 miles you don't pass a single health-food store, cappuccino bar or Subaru ...

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