At the tip of Long Island is Montauk, a fishing village that balances its rustic charms with splashes of urban glamour, so near yet so far from its manicured neighbours, writes George Epaminondas.
Max Anderson faces his fear in the Colorado Rockies, carving – sometimes ploughing – through the world’s biggest acreage of groomed snow. At a trifecta of Vail resorts, he finds the powder is fresh, the tires are fat and the tracks are fast.