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too much. Padding dressing-gown- clad back to my room, I pass galleries of black and white images of former guests: Marilyn Monroe, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable and, more recently, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jack Black. There is a low-key sophistication
to Sun Valley which extends to the local town of Ketchum. The Sawtooth Club was another of Hemingway’s favourite haunts and dinner there is a must. Fresh Idaho Ruby Trout is a real treat or try local game cooked on the mesquite fire. Not far from Sun Valley you can find its opposite, Craters of the Moon, and it’s definitely worth the 75-minute drive. The Monument and Preserve encompass three major lava fields and several hundred square miles of sagebrush grassland. Lying on the Great Rift of Idaho it has the deepest rift cracks on Earth, extending down some 245 metres. Nasa astronauts trained here to learn the basics of volcanic geology in preparation for
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trips to the moon. It is possible to drive around the fields but a hike is the best way to take in the surreal lunar scenes. I feel like a film star for a second time this trip but on this occasion on set as an intergalactic explorer. Razor-sharp shadows are cast by the sun and alien rocks glitter darkly, while
deep red craters give way to dense black cinder cones. Nearby, skinny mule deer laze under skeletal trees. There is no one else around for miles and therein lies the appeal of Idaho. Anywhere you go you can have the grandest and most beautiful of nature more or less to yourself.
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