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The restaurant The last word in mountain restaurants, Trapper's is the perfect way to finish a day in the mountains. You're greeted with a glass of champagne, hors d'oeuvres and fleece slippers in front of a huge open fire. Then, when you're suitably relaxed, start with satay chicken and shrimp vegetable spring rolls, crispy coconut Thai shrimp, Moroccan scallop skewers, black bean tortilla soup.
Main courses include grilled Atlantic salmon, honey and coriander-scented duck breast, pine nut-encrusted breast of pheasant and panseared beef tenderloin. For desserts there's sorbets and berries, strawberry rhubarb pie and spiced pumpkin mousse in chocolate-dipped hazelnut tart.
The view Trapper's Cabin is billed as 'Beaver's Creek's most unique dining experience'.
To get to this unquestionably posh pad you have to take the express chair lift to the top of the mountain where you'll dine 9,500ft above sea level. The cream-coloured log cabin is a four-bedroomed retreat set high on a mountain ridge that's blanketed with aspens. The views are spectacular looking east over the valley.
The bill To eat at Trapper's you need to stay four nights at the cabin but all meals and drinks are included. It's not cheap here . . . expect to pay around �?�700 a night in the winter months, with a considerable saving when the snows have gone . . . down to almost half that price.
Richard Liston Trapper's Cabin, Beaver's Creek, Colorado, USA; 001 9708545788
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