Taking the Kids: Looking for romance with your honey? Head to the snow -- with or without the kids!
If you've left the kids behind -- or at the condo with grandma -- do something you wouldn't enjoy with them, perhaps a nighttime snowshoe and wine-tasting at Beaver Creek Resort; a sleigh-ride multi-course gourmet dinner like at Beaver Creek's Beano's Cabin or the Fireside Dining experience at Deer Valley Resort in Park City, Utah, which includes a sleigh ride that can be taken in between the courses of dripping raclette cheese, stews, roasted leg of lamb and chocolate fondues -- all prepared at individual fireplace mantles and all you can eat -- a bargain at $75 per person.
Make your own wine and even design its label at the White Mountain Winery in North Conway, New Hampshire.
Present your honey with a thoughtful gift to be used on or off the slopes -- a fire-engine red, ultralight down sweater for him or red fleece-lined moccasins for her from LL Bean or a new pair of the ACE EC goggles that adjust to different light conditions just by pressing a button from Spy.
For the Apres Ski lover, a set of Whiski Polesski pole flasks (think a hollow pole).
The cute Discover tights or tops with reflective logos from Obermeyer are designed not only to be worn as a base layer for winter sports but also for running, hiking or just lounging. The new Capilene Air base layers from Patagonia are also guaranteed to please, not only lightweight and warm but also quick drying and odor resistant.
If your significant other always gets "hangry," they will love you forever if you stash a wholesome snack in your pocket, like organic fruit chewies that won't freeze or crispy filled waffle cookies from Honey Stinger. Of course, you can't go wrong with a piece of artisan heart-shaped chocolate presented on the chair lift.
Nor can you go wrong heading to the mountains when you haven't yet met that special someone. Take it from Rosana Faessler. She met her husband, Johannes, when she was a guest more than 30 years ago at the Sonnenalp in Vail, the hotel that his family owned.
They married just a few months after they met and now are the fourth generation to run the hotel, along with the fifth generation -- their son and daughter-in-law. It was, the family says, love at first sight.
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