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| | Tucked into Rocky Mountains, Fernie is a town for all seasons | ajc.com |
 | | FERNIE, British Columbia — Everybody knows about Banff and Lake Louise, the postcard settings of the Canadian Rockies, with their Old World hotels, their peaks of imposing, showy beauty. |
 | | Fernie could have gone either way, but it has charted a middle course, hanging onto vestiges of its mining heritage, without seeming like yet another mountain town overrun by bicyclists in Lycra demanding seven kinds of mineral water. |
 | | Fernie's base elevation is around 3,500 feet, which is not very high by the standards of the Rockies, but it also means most people will not have altitude headaches in their first couple of days. |
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