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Destination Club Holiday Gifts, Part 1: A Membership in Quintess, or DUO by Quintess

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Well, Happy Holidays! It could be me or you or a deserving friend, walking along that beach, looking toward one of the Quintess Villas at La Samanna, built on that cliff. The family would be either outside, sailing or swimming, or inside, relaxing, or fixing dinner, or lunch or breakfast. This is just one part of a Quintess vacation that turns memory to legacy.

I have written about Quintess, Leading Residences Of The World (LRW) before on Luxist: once about the mission and vision behind this high end Destination Club, others about it's inclusion of The Tour Club and DUO by Quintess, two other clubs that have been created under Quintess aegis, this year.

Quintess,LRW is one of two ultra high end. non-equity destination clubs in existence, and, according to Ben Addoms, Founding Member and CMO, it has been a good year. October was the best sales month in over two years, and Christmas is coming! "There are over 600 members now in Quintess, LRW, The Tour Club and the newest, DUO by Quintess. Not surprisingly, in the last quarter of the year, we receive requests for memberships to be used as holiday gifts, for family members, and business associates.. The Quintess LRW, and DUO by Quintess memberships are holiday gifts that keeps on giving, certainly."

Those gifts that keep on giving are usually not cheap, and a membership in Quintess certainly isn't. From 10 to 60 days of vacation, pricing levels range from $140,000 to $525,000 membership deposit, (but 75% is returned at resignation.) But, as with those gifts also, the members receives a type of travel that becomes needed, and unforgettable.

The choice of any home and destination in the complete portfolio of over 80 luxury homes,on average priced at 4M in 40+ destinations around the world.
Travel with comprehensive travel planning with on-site Destination Hosts and a personal member relations manager who gets to know you and your family's travel needs.
Extended family use that allows the member to send the entire family, plus their friends, on their own club vacations, because of the ability to reserve and use 2 residences in the same destination.

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Little Jennie Ranch Back On The Market

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The last time we heard about the Little Jennie Ranch in Bondurant, Wyoming it was back in 2005 when the home, then on the Forbes list of Most Expensive Homes sold for an undisclosed sum. Back then the ranch was listed at $55 million. Now the working cattle ranch is back on the market. The 3,016 acre historic ranch is one of Wyoming's most pristine and secluded private ranches. The ranch is a short drive south of Jackson Hole in the foothills of the snow-capped Gros Ventre Mountain Range and is surrounded by Teton National Forest and three mountain ranges. The ranch has miles of trout fishing streams and rolling meadows with Aspen and Fir. The Little Jennie has been a cattle operation since the 1950s. The property has a two-story log residence of 4000 square feet built by Jack Kranenberg at the heart of the ranch headquarters with eleven additional cabins scattered throughout the ranch. The property is now listed at $69.5 million.

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Squeeze out the Stiffness from a Long Day of Teton Hiking

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If you head out to Jackson Hole, still a playground for the wealthy, despite the lingering effects of the recession, a jaunt through the mountains is probably on your itinerary. The Grand Tetons are simultaneously challenging and inviting, and you need to respond to that call! After having scaled peaks or stumbled along trails, however, your body will need some relief. The Avanyu Spa at the Snake River Lodge & Spa is the perfect fit for rejuvenating your weary muscles.

I visited this spa on a recent getaway to Jackson Hole and can tell you the staff's talented hands are the perfect antidote to the strain and pain that comes with an active vacation. The Avanyu Spa offers 17,000 square feet of pure relaxation ... with the exception of the gym on the fifth floor. It's a great place to get in shape, but I just can't bring myself to compare exercise to bliss – it's just not my nature.

The range of treatments is fairly wide, and includes a variety of unique massages (e.g., Komodo Massage, Sleeping Indian Custom Massage and River Stone Massage), as well as desert salt exfoliation, several facials and other skin treatments.

The spa's layout was certainly interesting. The gym is on its uppermost floor, and the four below included treatment rooms, locker rooms and, on the first floor, an indoor pool and access to one outside. An elevator transports you from one to the next. At first, this seemed cumbersome, but that's probably because I'm constantly in a hurry. Quickly, I came to realize that the forced wait encouraged a bit of patience, moving me into the mindset that a spa visit encourages.

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The lobby at the Snake River Lodge & Spa

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The Historic Malcolm Forbes Jackson Hole Ranch for Sale

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Eighty-five acres of Malcolm Forbes's historic ranch have been listed for $12 million. The website for this listing is www.forbesjacksonholeranch.com, and the listing agent is David Viehman with Jackson Hole Real Estate Associates and Christies Great Estates.

The daughter of the former Forbes Magazine publisher, Moira Mumma, is selling the 85 acres but will keep a parcel near the property, Viehman said. She is selling the property because she doesn't need so much space, the Realtor said. "There are 20 some odd beds at the main compound," Viehman said. "The property was part of the original Jackson Hole Ranch. It borders Grand Teton National Park, and the Snake River runs through it. The Forbes listing is one of the few large land offerings along the river that has not been protected with a conservation easement."

The property is being sold as one parcel, divided into two tracts. One of the oldest structures on the property is an historic barn, over 1600 square feet, dating to 1918. A 4,100-square-foot main lodge includes an original homestead cabin, while a main room and gallery date to the 1940s. The main lodge, renovated in 1980, includes five bedrooms, four bathrooms, a recreation room and private sitting room. In addition, five guest cabins, ranging from 410 to over 800 square feet, offer another 10 bedrooms There is also a three bedroom caretaker's house. The modern kitchen and master suite were designed by well-known local designer Bobs Koedt.

The family ties to the Teton Valley date back more than 80 years to Forbes' wife, Roberta Remsen Laidlaw . In 1928, Laidlaw began visiting the valley with her parents when she was a child. After she married Malcolm Forbes, the couple honeymooned here, and Roberta insisted on returning often. "My mother, before her death in 1992, spent six months a year at the ranch," Mumma said recently. "She loved the valley more than anything on earth, and we were the lucky beneficiaries of that love."

This referral was generously suggested by Luxury Real Estate.Com, and the images were taken by Mack Mendenhall.

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Double H Ranch Goes Up For Auction

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A brand new ranch home with Big Horn views in Sheridan, Wyoming will go up for auction on July 22 through J.P. King Auction Company. The Double H ranch is on 37 acres and will be sold at absolute auction, with no minimums and no reserves. "It's pretty rare to see a brand new home like this be sold at absolute auction," said Craig King, president and CEO of J. P. King Auction Company. "Sitting in such a prime location, its beautiful location with no expenses spared makes it a prime opportunity to own a luxury home with phenomenal views at a great price."

The four-bedroom home is located in the gated community of Eaglestone. It has a separate guest suite that is completely self-sufficient for children or family to stay in the guest wing. The master suite has a cross-beamed ceiling, and spacious dressing and closet areas and heated floors in the bathroom. The property also has a wood-paneled barn with three stalls and an upstairs loft area that opens up to mountain views. The auction will take place on Thursday, July 22 at 11 a.m. on site at 85 Hollow Creek Road in Big Horn, Wyoming.

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Get Wild with the National Outdoor Leadership School

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If your summer vacation consists of lolling around in front of the air conditioner sipping a chilled beverage -- and you're not so happy about that, challenge yourself by signing up for a National Outdoor Leadership School course.

This Lander, Wyoming-based outdoors school primarily serves the school-aged -- teaching teenagers and college kids about leadership, nature and survival in the wilderness in courses that can run as long as a full semester. But it's less well-known that NOLS also offers classes for adults, which typically run a couple of weeks.

I joined one of their programs in the Wyoming Wind River Mountains almost exactly three years ago, and as a decidedly non-outdoorsy New Yorker, I will never forget it. In fact, I count it among the hardest things I've ever done -- but, since I didn't have to be helicoptered out I counted it as a raging success. (I hardly ever discuss how, on the last night, I took an instructor aside and said, you know, I've just realized that my people aren't woods people.)

I learned a lot about how you live a day-to-night life in the back country, for example, how to not freak out when crossing streams by jumping from rock-to-rock with a heavy pack on one's back, and how to keep hiking with two sprained ankles. Glamping this is not, but if you want to end the summer with a sense of pride and accomplishment, a NOLS course might be just the ticket.

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Wilson, Wyoming, Estate of the Day

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I'm not a big fan of winter but this is my kind of winter retreat, a modern home in Wilson, Wyoming. Today's home is a four-bedroom contemporary house on over seven acres. The home's open floor plan uses a stone fireplace to separate the living room and the kitchen/dining area. The kitchen seems a bit small but boasts modern steel appliances which work well with the steel, wood and concrete in the home. The compound includes an another building with a great room, guest bedroom, solarium, exercise room, wine room and another garage. The land borders the Jackson Hole Land Trust open space and has deed access to the Snake River.Outside there is a heated patio area with a cooktop, stone firepit and an infinity edge hot tub bordering a small pond. This home is listed at $7.5 million.

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Jackson, Wyoming, Estate of the Day

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When it comes to luxury real estate in the Montana and Wyoming, Jonathan Foote is a name you need to know. The architect has made a niche in creating huge rock and timber homes. Today's example is a huge home in Jackson, Wyoming. The home is on ten acres that includes a koi pond. The house itself is over 23,000 square feet with seven bedrooms, two offices, a wine cellar, gym and a 12-seat movie theater. The home is listed at $29.5 million.

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Antelope Run Ranch, Estate of the Day

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Today's estate is one of the prettiest Wyoming properties we've ever had on this site. Antelope Run Ranch is an 8,000 acre ranch located at the foot of the Bridger-Teton National Forest just 30 minutes from Pinedale, Wyoming and a 1.5 hour drive from Jackson Hole. The ranch is a haven for horses with large irrigated hay meadows and rolling hills and forests that range in elevation from 6,900 feet to 8,100 feet. The ten miles of South Horse Creek flowing through the ranch offers fishing and there are also three large spring fed ponds on the property with two aerated ponds with stocked rainbow trout.

The property includes a large contemporary 9,750 square-foot custom-built main home. Known as the Hill House, the house, designed by Bartholomew Voorsanger of Vooranger & Associates, is structured in steel with concrete slabs and clad in granite with double-glazed glass window walls, painted metal trim and slate roofs. The main level features a living room, dining room, study, kitchen, gear room and the master bedroom with two bath suites and sauna. Large windows offer scenic views over the ranch. The four major rooms have fireplaces. On the lower level there are six bedrooms, a game room, a common sitting room with fireplace and a second kitchen. The house also includes a wet/dry sauna, a wine cellar, cedar lined closets, 10,000 gallon water storage and three 450 gallon water heaters with instant hot water throughout the house. The home is being sold with the furniture including a revolving king size bed in the master bedroom, a 20' long dining table and chairs and six complete bedroom suites. The stable is constructed of the identical materials used to build the Hill House and has four stalls, rubber tiled floor, grooming area and an adjoining fenced corral.

Also on the property there is a ranch manager's log home, a guest house, a heated horse arena, a nine-bay log garage and a fully equipped and certified 7,850 foot airstrip located on a separate parcel eight miles from the ranch. This property is listed at $29.5 million.

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Spring Creek Ranch Offers Ski Free Package

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We are barely starting to feel the first hint that fall is on its way but some people in Jackson Hole, Wyoming are already focused on ski season. Spring Creek Ranch has a deal for budget-minded winter sports enthusiasts this winter. Their Ski Free package gives skiers the option to hit the slopes at either Grand Targhee Resort or Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, both prime locations for making the powder fly.

Starting late November through April 1, 2010 Spring Creek Ranch's "Ski Free" Package starts at $87.50 per person per night double occupancy. It includes a lift tickets to Grand Targhee Resort or Jackson Hole Mountain Resort (up to two per day), accommodations, breakfast for two daily at The Granary restaurant and complimentary shuttle service to town and to Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. Both ski resorts are scheduled to open at the end of November this year.

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Bill Gates Buys Buffalo Bill's Ranch for $9 Million

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Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the world's richest man, has reportedly purchased Irma Lake Lodge in Wyoming, a 492-acre ranch that once belonged to Western legend "Buffalo Bill" Cody, for $8.9 million. The deal was done via Gates' investment manager, the Cody Enterprise reports. The Shoshone Forest borders the beautiful property (above) on two sides and the terrain varies from open knolls to thick conifer forests, aspen groves and rocky outcroppings. Dotted across the ranch are four lakes and three picturesque ponds.

Named by Buffalo Bill after his youngest daughter, Irma Lake is the largest body of water with approximately 12 acres. The estate includes a 15,000-square-foot contemporary log cabin-style main residence (below) with with expansive open spaces and patios, a five-bedroom guesthouse, stables, Buffalo Bill's original cabin, a caretaker's house, and a dairy cabin. In addition to amazing views, there are several species of fish to be found on the property as well as "some of the finest big game hunting the west has to offer."

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Rendezvous Ranch, Estate of the Day

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The Rendezvous Ranch is an over 1,000 acre retreat located for views of the Wind River Mountain Range in Wyoming. The ranch is about an hour south of Jackson Hole and offers ample hunting and fishing. it says this on the listing but it can also be seen by just how many heads, pelts and antlers decorate the rustic log home. The property hasn't been on the market in 20 years and the decor goes from dated to a little bit frightening in some rooms (depending of course on how you feel about mounted animal heads) but you can't fault the scenery. The property includes a main house, a pair of guest cabins, a manager's home, horse barn, riding arena and more. It is a working cattle ranch with federal grazing permits sufficient to run a 400 head cow/calf operation. This ranch is listed at $9.9 million.

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Inn at Jackson Hole For Sale

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One of Jackson Hole, Wyoming's popular hotels is for sale. The Inn at Jackson Hole is located at the base of the world renowned Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. It has 83 hotel rooms: 25 poolside rooms, 25 mountainside rooms, 20 deluxe rooms and 13 premium suites. The hotel includes heated pool, conference rooms, onsite restaurant and bar, and a lobby complete with fireplace, deer heads and antler chandeliers. For $33 million you can own your own ski hotel.

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Three Forks Ranch Opens For Guests

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The Three Forks Ranch located on a huge 200,000 acre spread along the Colorado-Wyoming border, is a new ranch destination combining fly fishing, horseback riding, sport clay shooting and other rugged activities, along with the sumptuous experience of a luxury resort and spa. The 30,000-square-foot lodge has 15 rooms and details like giant-beamed cathedral ceilings and European hand-carved paneling. The 15 guest rooms have antique oriental rugs, silk-linen wallpaper, Bellisari Italian linens, Chadsworth & Haig robes and L'Occitane toiletries and all rooms in the lodge have views of the Little Snake River Valley.

The lodge's Oxbow dining room offers gourmet meals, afternoon teas and wine tastings. The Roaring Fork Spa has hot tubs, soaking pools, and four massage and treatment rooms, with treatments such as Little Snake River Stone Therapy, Sportsman's Relief Massage and the Catch-and-Release Body Wrap.

The owners of the Three Forks Lodge have gone to great lengths to restore the fish population. A plan led by hydrologist Dr. Dave Rosgen of Wildland Hydrology was developed to reduce erosion, plant new vegetation and develop wetlands, creating the largest privately funded river restoration in U.S. history and a pristine fly-fishing environment. The Three Forks Ranch fishing guides offer custom fishing opportunities for novices and those with more skills. Fishing for brook, cutthroat, brown and rainbow trout is all catch-and-release. The summer fly-fishing season runs through October 31, 2008 and the winter season which begins December 15, 2008 offers cross-country skiing, snowmobiling, alpine skiing excursions to nearby Steamboat Springs, sleigh rides and dogsledding. All rates include lodging, meals, guide, horseback riding, hiking, four-wheeling, and sporting clays and one massage treatment. A four-night room in a deluxe room costs $5000.

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Teton Pines, Estate of the Day

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Today's home in Teton Pines, Wyoming isn't the most expensive or largest in the region but it has a great open style. I love the homes that take the Jackson Hole style of making log cabins on steroids and turn it into something lavish but also modern and intimate. The home sits on the fourth hole of the Teton Pines Golf Course. It measures 6512 square feet and has four bedrooms. The open floor plan features high pitched ceilings and a juxtaposition of stone walls and light wood for an airy feel. I'm not sure what the upholstered chairs are doing in the kitchen, it looks a little like an office but overall the use of white oak and and big windows facing the mountain views have me sold on this home. Also worthy of note is the master suite which features a fireplace, a dry sauna and a steam shower. This home is listed at $4.95 million.

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